Why Does the UN Want You to Live Longer?
By AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16676)
Boston, Massachusetts
October 27, 2015 7:07am CST
I just wonder sometimes. I mean, the World Health Organization, a branch of the UN, is busy trying to give us helpful information about staying healthy and not dying. They even go so far as to make up scary statistics and snatch the bacon right out of your hand. But why do they want you to live longer when the UN thinks the world is overpopulated now?
I mean, the UN has an entire branch dedicated to population. They do nothing but look at population statistics and calculate future population growth whilst occasionally issuing warnings about the dangerous population tipping point.
So, why try to keep people from eating meat if it is going to kill them sooner? In fact, why are we trying so hard to keep this generation alive? What's so special about this generation? What makes us think it is superior to the next that might come along if some of us died and made room?
I read an article the other day that claimed that the first person who will live to 1,000 has already been born.
Science is working to discover that fountain of youth, which apparently is not in Florida as Ponce de Leon thought it was.
The very same people are warning that there are too many people and by 2050, world population will be so excessive that the earth will not be able to support them. Of course, in the 60s, we were told that would happen by 1970.
I just don't get it. People freezing their heads so they can be attached to other bodies or machines later, science trying to extend man's lifespan to 1,000 and making sure we don't eat anything tasty during that 1,000 years.
I am glad that some people die. Can you imagine having someone like Hitler, or Stalin, or the leader of ISIS around for 1,000 years? Do we really have the perfect set of people on earth right now that we should refuse to reproduce and keep everyone alive forever?
Just watch Reality TV a few times and then tell me that this generation is the one we should preserve.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
27 Oct 15
hahaha, funny but honest way to look at it. I have to wonder, every time these new "things" come out, just how much time and research were put into it, and how much the research was done accurately.
I have issues with the definitive nature of these claims, I don't think enough research was done to prove causality.
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@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
27 Oct 15
I don't believe any of it. Man is here. He lives longer than ever before. He has developed medicines that take care of the diseases of old age - diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritic joints, etc. But man has something else that will never be cured - an enormous ego. He seriously believes he can create and destroy worlds.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
27 Oct 15
@Rollo1 very true, I think disease, cancer, natural disasters, are all checks to keep population in check, and man humble, not that it works on the humble part, but still
@Cristi_Ichim (3750)
• Bucharest, Romania
27 Oct 15
People are angry about the bacon issue. Hahahaha
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@LadyDuck (502429)
• Italy
27 Oct 15
You know that I like conspiracy theories, well, animals pollute a lot more than cars or everything else on this heart. To produce meat they consume plenty of resources like water, grains and add as much as you can. All that said, why to be honest and say to reduce the intake because they are dangerous to the planet?! Do what the ancient did, scare people, soon an asteroid will struck the earth if we still eat meat. Ridiculous.
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@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
27 Oct 15
Animals are part of the ecosystem, how can they harm it? Again, that theory is part of the plot to reduce the population and turn the West into an impoverished and easily subjected population. Some extreme environmentalists want humans to voluntarily go extinct so the animals can take over. Well, if animals pollute more than cars, that would be disastrous. An asteroid may well take us out, so why not eat bacon and drive your car? You can't save the planet. Anyone who thinks he can save the planet thinks a lot of himself. Conspiracytheory? No, it's all coming true just as predicted. And it's unbelievable that people don't see it.
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@LadyDuck (502429)
• Italy
28 Oct 15
@Rollo1 A cow releases between 70 and 120 kg of Methane gas per year. I believe you know that this is a greenhouse gas like carbon dioxide, with a difference the negative effect on the climate of Methane is 23 times higher than the effect of carbon dioxide. I know that people do not know.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54715)
• United States
27 Oct 15
Living to be 1000 sounds like a nightmare.
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