but my mission, and that of the new institute we founded, is to make these transformations go well. and we only do that by thinking also about how these technologies, including this one, life extension, can go wrong and what we need to do to make them go well. you say you re broadly, and in principle, excited. you don t come across as excited. you come across as deeply concerned. you talk about the earth s carrying capacity. that, iguess, means its resource base and what it can.the number of people it can manage to keep alive on this planet. you talk about the carrying capacity being overburdened, and you say that a longevity of 120 to 160 years for the average human would make life pretty much impossible. well, i am very concerned. i think everyone ought to be concerned about the drain on the planet s resources that we re exerting with 8 billion people. and we need to be tackling that. and my worry is when people say, you know, it would be
to make them go well. you say you re broadly, and in principle, excited. you don t come across as excited. you come across as deeply concerned. you talk about the earth s carrying capacity. that, i guess, means its resource base and what it can.the number of people it can manage to keep alive on this planet. you talk about the carrying capacity being overburdened, and you say that a longevity of 120 to 160 years for the average human would make life pretty much impossible. well, i am very concerned. i think everyone ought to be concerned about the drain on the planet s resources that we re exerting with 8 billion people. and we need to be tackling that. and my worry is when people say, you know, it would be fantastic if we have a breakthrough in life extension and, sure, there ll be problems, but we ll solve them. well, fine. but let s. .. show me how you can solve the problems of biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse and global warming now, and then i ll believe you if you tell
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but my mission, and that of the new institute we founded, is to make these transformations go well. and we only do that by thinking also about how these technologies, including this one, life extension, can go wrong and what we need to do to make them go well. you say you re broadly, and in principle, excited. you don t come across as excited. you come across as deeply concerned. you talk about the earth s carrying capacity. that, i guess, means its resource base and what it can.the number of people it can manage to keep alive on this planet. you talk about the carrying capacity being overburdened, and you say that a longevity of 120 to 160 years for the average human would make life pretty much impossible. well, i am very concerned. i think everyone ought to be concerned about the drain on the planet s resources that we re exerting with 8 billion people. and we need to be tackling that. and my worry is when people say,