Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space Chapter 118: Aging crisis

　　There are many factors that cause the population growth rate. The first reason is the increase in life expectancy.

　　In areas with a better medical environment, the average life expectancy has reached 160 years. Pay attention to the average life expectancy, and the individual is very well maintained, even living to 238 years old!

　　In this kind of high life expectancy, who would be willing to stay with a partner for a lifetime?

　　 The humanistic environment of the entire civilization is slowly changing because of the increase in lifespan.

　　 After all, human beings are creatures that love the new and hate the old. The previous "accompanying for a lifetime" was fifty or sixty years, and now the lifetime of company is one hundred fifty and sixty years!

　　 Human beings will remain young and middle-aged for a long time. Most people would rather have enough fun before talking about it, rather than form a stable family and have children...

　　 As a result, the marriage rate is sluggish, and the birth rate naturally drops.

　　 The second issue is the cost of cultivating talents. The cutting-edge space industry is increasingly demanding population quality. But in just a few hundred years, human intelligence will not advance by leaps and bounds.

　　 Cultivating a high-quality talent may consume most of a family’s savings.

　　 Therefore, in most families, one child is enough.

　　"Many young people don’t like marriage, and don’t like childbirth. Keeping DINK can greatly improve the quality of life. For these young people, it is difficult enough to feed themselves. Where can we consider the whole country’s security? ?"

　　"On the contrary, the birth rate in some poor countries is relatively high...Even if distance online education is popularized, under the influence of a certain environment, the probability of the emergence of high-quality talents is still low."

　　 Looking at this report, Zhang Yuan was a little worried.

　　Aging trap, an extremely terrifying crisis.

　　The more elderly people there are, the heavier the social burden on young people will be.

　　 And the heavier the burden on young people, the worse the economic conditions, the less willing to have children.

　　 This is a vicious circle, and it is very difficult to jump out of it. Even if the government introduces various policies to encourage childbirth, they often fail to achieve very good results...

　　 History has proved that the best way to cure aging is war!

　　 That’s right, the reshuffle brought about by war can bring about the peak of fertility. This view has been proven many times by history.

　　 But the current trend of the whole world is peaceful development, and war is impossible.

　　 Moreover, as a normal person, Zhang Yuan does not want to use the world war to solve the problem of aging. It is simply putting the cart before the horse.

　　 He shook his head, put all his thoughts behind him, and continued to analyze the data.

　　【Under the influence of this trend of thought, the population of Bangguo has been reduced from 51 million to 15 million, the first country that will self-destruct due to aging. 】

　　 "Oh, human, pill!" The sentimental John watched on the sidelines, and began to sigh again.

　　"The increase in life expectancy has become the best contraceptive medicine. The garbage population in poor countries is increasing. They generally rely on the relief of rich countries to live their lives. I really don’t know what is the use of these people."

　　 Discussing disputes, Zhang Yuan is actually not very good at it. He bit the bullet and retorted: "At least poor countries are also raw materials production sites, and they still have a little effect. Without poverty, where does prosperity come from? As long as it is productivity, Even if it’s lower, how could it be useless!"

　　 "In your eyes, everything is pills anyway."

　　 John was stunned: "It is true that the development of earth civilization requires a low-end population... It is impossible to all be high-quality population. The distribution of population, no matter what era, must be pyramid-shaped."

　　 Zhang Yuan shook his head: "In fact, on the whole, the earth’s civilization is still moving forward, isn’t it? As for the population problem, I believe it can be solved. Every age has its own problems. It’s impossible. Smooth sailing."

　　 "I don't really believe that anyway, human beings will really die because of aging."

　　 John replied: "Zhang Yuan, you are too optimistic. So far, human beings have used greedy strategies. Only when a problem arises, we will find a way to solve it, rather than prevent it in the first place."

　　"This kind of decision-making system is unscientific in itself, and it is likely to fall into the trap of mediocrity. Aging is already a big problem."

　　 Zhang Yuan actually knew this, but he still had a natural sense of expectation towards his mother civilization.

　　 In this case, he didn't want to argue with John too much, just continue to read the following report.

　　In response to a series of problems caused by the cessation of population growth, government departments are constantly encouraging childbirth and introducing relevant policies.

　　This kind of population policy does not have decades of effort, and basically will not have much effect, so he skipped the middle 30 years of development and turned to the latest report.

　　 When he witnessed the first few lines, his spirit was shocked.

　　"Hello colleagues of Earth Age! I am the new chairman of the Deep Space Foundation, Yuan Yuchan, and I will bring you the latest information on earth civilization."

　　The new president of the foundation has become a middle-aged woman~IndoMTL.com~ but this is nothing.

　　"In recent years, the best scientific and technological achievements have appeared in biology, mainly the deciphering of protein language and the emergence of artificial uterus technology!"

　　"...The deciphering of protein language has brought a qualitative change in life science!"

　　"We have overcome a large number of diseases, including the'king of cancer' pancreatic cancer and various malignant diseases..."

　　 "Overcoming the drug resistance of super bacteria is no longer a luxury!"

　　 Great news!

　　 Seeing this, Zhang Yuan couldn't help but smile from his seat.

　　 Below are a lot of papers on protein language, involving all aspects of biology.

　　 However, Zhang Yuan didn't know much about biology, so he couldn't comment.

　　 He only knows that the work of deciphering protein language must be extremely important. Human beings can understand the essence of life in depth from the most microscopic level.

　　 To give a simple example, in terms of the immune system, HIV has given up evil to good, which can help treat immunodeficiency. Some people with congenital immunodeficiency can now be cured. This kind of medical treatment can only be said to be a fantasy in the past!

　　"The average life expectancy is going to increase again. I don't know if it will affect the marriage rate." Zhang Yuan asked with interest: "Our biologist, have you studied these new drugs?"

　　"Researching." John turned his head and said, "Our current equipment is too bad, and we can't make such medicines that can increase life expectancy...The next year, there will be a life science conference, but it will not be round. Come to the two of us. We are not a biologist."

　　 "Okay." Zhang Yuan shook his head. Anyway, he is still young and he doesn't need to think too much about lifespan.

　　 The question of life and death, thinking too much is just annoying out of thin air.