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Can we reverse global warming before it is too late?
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What do I do to stop the way I feel before it is to late.
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when do you think the presedent is going to die?
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I thought same as MrSublime and How can we really tackle poverty and help prevent related deaths in the world?
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do we really need all these wars that are currently going on? is this the only way to bring peace?
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How long until pay day? :p
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When do we take fighting and stopping aging seriously? Most of modern medicine, and almost all the cost of it to our society, is in scrambling desperately to fix one problem after another caused by aging in our older population, which is becoming a higher percentage of our population all the time. Heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, not to mention your good old fashioned broken hips - these are not separate ailments, but symptoms of a disease, aging. Fighting them is like trying to throw water out of a sinking ship. But studying and trying to cure aging reaps dividends that improves our ability to fight and cure all of these diseases, even if we don't immediately get large increases in lifespan. We should remember that, in response to cries of "aging is natural" that it's really not. For 99% of human history on this planet, virtually every human died of disease, accident, toxicity, or something equally horrible. There were always exceptions that died aged, but they were exceptions, and even they died earlier than they would have given modern medicine and hygiene practices. Even if we grant that aging is "natural", it is no more natural than the cancer and diseases we struggle against. Aging is a degenerative disease that robs people of their physical and mental health and function, and eventually of their lives, and leads to all the other diseases we actively try to fight in the process. This is a good article to read discussing the "Longevity Dividend" - the simple economic benefit to society if we could just delay aging by seven years, which current research suggests is easily within the realm of possibility in the very near term: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/PZCZOssSl94edu/Generating-the-Longevity-Dividend.xhtml And, in advance, this article discusses and refutes the flawed argument based on overpopulation concerns: http://www.fightaging.org/archives/000972.php
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