Twice as long – life expectancy around the world
ourworldindata.org
ourworldindata.org
https://demography.cpc.unc.edu/2014/06/16/mortality-and-caus...
I also pulled up car accident fatalities and found it interesting that we peaked in the 30s and 40s per capita in the US, despite the major investment of the highway system in the 50s which one could have presumed would have made it far worse given the combination of speed and lack of air bags. Then again, my anecdotal experience says that I know far more people killed or severely injured from country driving and small town DUI than highway driving.
I wonder what the 2100 graph will say? Will that cancer chunk be eliminated or mostly scrunched down? Will we have figured out how to grow new hearts so we eliminate heart disease? Hope I live long enough to find out (I’d be 115).
And this says nothing about the direct and indirect deaths from rising sea levels: famine, wars, pandemics, etc.
From the article abstract:
"This generally reduces co-emissions that cause ambient air pollution, resulting in near-term, localized health benefits. We therefore examine the human health benefits of increasing 21st-century CO2 reductions by 180 GtC, an amount that would shift a ‘standard’ 2 °C scenario to 1.5 °C or could achieve 2 °C without negative emissions."
I did not read the article but the abstract emphasizes the number of lives saved in Asia and Africa. It is probably the reduction in burning coal without any scrubbers that gives the large reduction in deaths. Reducing natural gas power generation in the US would likely reduce few deaths.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181002-how-long-did-ancien...
For the rest of us though, life has become better and healthier.
From Wikipedia:
The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died on 5 December 1791 at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have attracted much research and speculation. Some principal sources of contention are as follows.
* Whether Mozart declined gradually, experiencing great fear and sadness, or whether he was fundamentally in good spirits toward the end of his life, then felled by a relatively sudden illness. The former hypothesis was accepted for most of the history of Mozart biography, but the latter has been advanced by contemporary scholars.
* The actual cause of his death: whether it was from disease or poisoning. The poisoning hypothesis is widely discredited. If a particular disease was the actual cause of death, then it remains unknown; only plausible conjectures can be offered.
* His funeral arrangements, and whether they were the normal procedures for his day, or if they were of a disrespectful nature. Modern scholarship generally supports the view that the funeral arrangements were normal for Mozart's time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wolfgang_Amadeus_Moza...
For a good example, read the description of the Crow Indians in the last appendix of Journal of A Trapper:
https://books.google.com/books?id=49HTAAAAMAAJ&printsec=fron...
Sad.
Getting overstimulated by shocking videos/news outlets on our phones, feeling ousted/depressed by seeing other people pretend to have happy lives on social media or seeing marketing from websites pretending its perfectly normal to play with each others feelings by having affairs.
14% increase of confused people (dutch) ; https://demonitor.kro-ncrv.nl/onderzoeken/verwarde-mensen
Living longer but sick longer; https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/life-expectancy-a...
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/prepare-for-a-sick-old-age...
TED talk about children getting overstimulated by Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9EKV2nSU8w
I'm female. I happily have zero children at age 40. I'm able to be as open about my bisexuality and my atheism as I chose. In my life, I've had 2 fairly superficial cuts get infected - one was about 3 weeks ago, and accompanied a fall down the stairs. I also got a broken arm (elbow) out of the deal. The other was years ago, and had red streaks going up my thumb.
These infections alone could have killed me. I probably could not have chosen to marry my spouse. I probably could not have chosen to be atheist and could not have openly been attracted to women as well as men. I'd have been expected to do womanly things and not rightfully been able to do things like rent an apartment, work and expect to keep my earnings as my own, and other such things. In many places, I could not vote either.
My ex husband wound up being severely mentally ill. He would have gotten treated horribly if not experimented on. Mental hospitals can be horrible places now, yet they were houses of horrors back in the day.
It is really difficult to compare being older yet sicker to days of the past as well, since some things would have simply killed you instead of being something you live with as a chronic disease. Type 1 diabetes - the sort that affects young folks - killed more often. Type 2 could easily do so as well. Heart attack? No treatments available, though you might be lucky enough to live through it. Stroke? Same thing, and then you are at the mercy of your children and family to take care of you (sometimes it is that way now, depending on where in the world you live).
Meh. I'll take now, thank you very much.
I am a bit bothered by such statements. Bodies actually can go a long long way before dying.
Broken bones can heal on their own for most simple fractures. It wouldve taken months, would've hurt more, might not have been be perfectly aligned, you might limp your whole life, but it works. (And more complex ones can also be difficult or impossible to heal even with modern help.)
As for infections, even though it can go both ways, we can actually heal or at least fight them quite efficiently (if in sufficient health). Abscess, fistula, we have many ways of fighting back or curb infections. It's way more comfortable to skip a week of fever or annoying swelling though, with the perk of approximately guaranteed survival. (Also amputation is a rather ancient technique and can help a lot.)
Even in this day many people can't or don't afford surgery or medication and still manage to survive wounds.
My broken bone would have been fine, but folks died of this stuff as well. They would list cause of death as the accident rather than the infection due to lack of knowledge. Compound fractures were more likely to kill.
Even in this day many people can't or don't afford surgery or medication and still manage to survive wounds.
This is true, but people will do some self-care for wounds. Can't afford stitches, but can clean the wound well and use the bandage strips on it and continue to keep it clean. People didn't always do these things and some of the things we did were just wrong, simply for not understanding microbiology.
>I am a bit bothered by such statements. Bodies actually can go a long long way before dying.
Yeah, they can. And yet at the same time life is fragile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage survived a railroad spike in the head at a time where that pretty much would have killed 999 out of 1,000 people.
And perfectly healthy people died by the truckload from the Spanish flu, and influenzas that hit healthy people the hardest because of cytokine storms.
People survived horrific illnesses and injuries throughout the ages and soldiered on. And plenty of people died along the way from those same hardships.