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- Doubling human life expectancy in a century is our greatest achievement, says author Steven Johnson. How did we make it happen -- and can we keep it going? Backed by fascinating historical anecdotes, he shares some life-lengthening innovations and reminds us of three key things needed to make sure all of humanity enjoys these advancements in health.
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We finish studying and start having income at the age people used to die
Not gonna lie. Steven has good hair.
the story of milk pasteurization brings about sad reflections on the modern attitude of people to science.
you woldnt see it if it wouldnt fit into the recent times
And people still think the free market is free from problems
Master in Knowledge here💯💯🇺🇸
Life is not worth sustaining indefinitely unless youth can be preserved with it.
aging is the process of deterioration of your body so curing aging would mean an indefinite healthspan
@@venkatchait007 no need, just upload your mind
Youth is not woth without wisdom.
It is actually crazy how quickly this happened
Life expectancy is affected by many factors such as: socioeconomic status, including employment, income, education and economic wellbeing; the quality of the health system and the ability of people to access it👍
And longer lives mean more pollution, higher prices, and wasted shared resources to prop up the fragile elderly.
@@homewall744 having an elite class brings exactly the same issues more severely. I know which one I'd like to sacrifice
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The greatest achievement of your lifetime. TH-cam made you special!
look up unlearning economics and we're in hell's videos on steven pinker
That London mortality chart from the 1840s at 2:39 is pretty harrowing. Over one-third dead by the age of 5, another 10% dead by 20 - only 3 out of 5 people in that generation made it to adulthood. Only half of the generation makes it to age 40.
The pollution alone was enough to kill you, from the fires, etc...
People just dont understand how brutal life was for a human being, since the very dawn of our kind, until very very recently.
@@davidmiletic6647 It's still really brutal for the vast majority of mankind. There are still places on this planet where children are dying from starvation/malnourishment & pollution. But people don't like to talk about it.
@@nobodysbaby5048 not really. at this point, anyone in the middle class in the G20 countries is fine.
Life expectancy for an adult was higher then one may think. Life expectancy was only so low back then cos of the high infant mortality rate. In the absence of infant mortality rates an average adult lived to around 60-70 years of age
Quality matters more than quantity and in my experience life after 65 is of poor quality
I'd argue that what life looks like after 65 has a great deal with how you've lived it until you're 65. My mother is 70 and hikes fourteeners in her spare time. She enjoys a better quality of life than a lot of 20-somethings I know. Just an observation, not an argument. May you live long and prosper.
@@Ibthe4th Some people have "good" genes and some live charmed lives but I think if lives were assessed objectively rather than with the very common polyanna attitude then the overall quality of life would be found wanting for most people after a certain age, and for a majority of people of any age around the world.
please enable the automatic english subtitles
What’s the point of extending life expectancy just go the stressed, unhappy and frustrated longer ?
This guy is 242 years old 😳
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Part two should be titled "Why has sperm count in the west dropped by more than half in the last 40 years"
Whilst life expectancy has increased ... remember that if childhood disease did not kill you, then you could expect to live to 40+, and if adult disease, childbirth, war, or work accident did not kill you then you could expect to live to 75 easily ... the oldest person in 1900 was over 110, the oldest people today are also just over 110 ... there are just more of them
So what you are saying is... if nothing kills you, you can live forever?
@@MrBarryyoung 110
I prefer the years of life before fourty five than the ones after.
New medical breakthroughs can basically extend the good life into the 70. The holdup is with human testing. You need a decade of testing a large sample size(humans) to know the real effects.
Also, to a large extent, nutrition decisions affect that. Many people with healthy diets are doing great well into their 80s.
Vaccines did NOT double the life expectancy. Smallpox cases were way down before the vaccine achieved widespread use. Changes in sanitation, and combating malnutrition had a much greater effect
😂😂😂😂😂And the Earth is flat.
So true. The lies become concrete over time. And many love lies over the truth.
Preach! Ugh the manipulation of the info is so frustrating! Words and how we use them are very powerful.
We shouldn't play God
This is one of the benefits and costs of long-term economic growth and societal progression. As a group, we just need to negotiate other factors so we aren’t overwhelmed by the health system we created. Specifically, each and every one of us can help by reducing our individual waste and not taking more food than we need, and we can start on the climate by picking one piece of trash we see per day. Your conscience will do the rest. Wish you all luck,
-S
The main contributors to climate change where regular humans play a part are power generation, agriculture(particularly livestock) & transport. Of these realistically the only thing we can really make a meaningful difference to is agriculture, by changing our diets.
It wasnt difficult once babies stopped dying, the average shot up huge amounts
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Calling for more centralised authorities and lobbying. What world are we living in...
I like this.
Knowledge is power.
Thanks for information 💕👍💕💙
develop the immortality pill already because we need that indefinite time to find our true soulmates, get rich and build our dream mansions, eradicate pain and suffering from humanity, create tech to achieve superpowers like flying and finally love and be loved forever
Anyone else picturing our heads in a jar like Futurama?
Johnson pre-supposes that extending life expectancy is desireable. I've never met, heard of, or read stories of 90 year olds craving a few more decades. I have met and spoken with 90 year olds who have said they are "ready" and accepting of their mortality.
That's part of the reason why he discusses increasing health-span as well. I would wager that a 90 year old today is relatively comparable to a 50 or 60 year old from 1850 in terms of their health.
Similarly, increasing lifespan from say 70 to 90 makes does not just extend their life, but also their relative health and wellbeing. A person who is 60 in a world where the expected is 60, would be expected to be on their death bed. But a person who is 60 in world where expectancy is 80 is still incredibly capable of participating in society.
Obviously this ignores the sewing from infant mortality but the general trend remains.
Because their bodies haven been falling apart for 30 years.
Imagine they were living in the body of a 28 year old the whole time.
I'm 45 and never had a vaccine I guess I'm going to die
100% chance
Your expected lifespan sure took a shot.
According to me that life expectancy is affected by ; poor health system education and food quality
Молоко - главная проблема 19-го века в Америке, ха-ха-ха, а кипятить его вы не пробовали?
You're lying and we all know it. Reparations now!
Is the decrease in high infant mortality included in your stats of 100 years ago?
you can see it in the graph he showed, death rate jumps at the start and then becomes steady.
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Is this the person who described Steven-jonhsons syndrome?
Shame that health ‘expectancy’ is down though.
Maybe in USA.
but not globally, it keep increasing.
@@hexa1905 it's actually not in the usa.
@@hexa1905 sorry but disagree. I've been living in Italy since 2001 and all I see is people being put on meds from an earlier and earlier age. I also have a property in an old town, where the vast majority are elders & I see 70 year olds that are barely mobile etc... Anecdotal, I know but I travel extensively in Europe & seeing similar picture wherever I go.
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Forget about obesity? 🙄
@@carsonhunt4642 dont eat so much food ig? 🧐
london used to be so filthy, its not a surpirse
Life expectancy is to do with knowledge, wealth, piece of mind
Look at the people of mountains in Afghanistan, average life expectancy 120
Good natural food, no modern anxieties
Free from the bond majority of people are in
Go and ask them about mortgage , rent, traffic jams, divorces, pollution, etc
People of the past lived through wars, bloodshed, economic disaster's, loss of knowledge , therefore anxieties is the enemy and the enemy know this
Knowledge helps know what to eat and how to create a just society, and wealth for all
Take COVID for example, how many got done by anxiety?
Imagine ww1 ww2, how people felt not to mention the bombings , this definitely adds to short life expectancy
Anxieties , bad habits are not good but the elite encourage such things?
Why can't the same happen in pets
El tema que aborda Steven Johnson resulta particularmente importante por impulsarnos a razonar acerca de relaciones entre diversos componentes de nuestro pensamiento y la vida social . Hay que aprovechar la frescura de estas expresiones. 🙂
Thanks
Hal speaking: 2021.
Money
Imagine if the reason we live 200 years is because we choose to eat fruits and vegetables, and other plants, and boost the immune systems through eating habits alone. Imagine people waking up to go on a walk, instead of a cup of coffee, and we can walk away from toxic materials and products we use in today’s standards.
Be great to institutionalize health habits throughout life.
How many people do you think have the chance of breathing some fresh air?in my counrty there is about 3 million litre of Mazot burning everyday to provide needed energy just for one city. a substatute extremely dangrous with high cancer potential. One of the solutions for population problame throughout non industrialised countries like mine, is to get rid of non working part of population. a sad truth a person like me with old parents should try to get along with everyday
Peniciline was probably one major factor too.
That said, this talk spirals a bit off the mark at the end.
i enjoyed the talk a lot but i believe it was fragmented, a lot of ideas were exposed but it did not reach any conclusion.
Honest question: With many people having negative side effects from Vaccines, why aren't we doing patient DNA testing with Vaccines to see if they're compatable? ...Instead of damaging someone for the rest of their life, and effecting the quality of life and straining families and communities?
Test: Can anyone see this? I am a truth teller, so I get shadow banned a lot on TH-cam.
Really liked this video but it's a shame that access to cheap energy (ie. Fossil fuel burning) was missed out as it underlies all these other changes and has an almost 1:1 mapping onto life expectancy. It allowed us to outsource most grinding labour to machines, bought us time to work in scientific and bureaucratic institutions (as opposed to most people working in subsistence agriculture) and powered industries such as manufacturing, vaccine production milk pasteurization. It also improved food security (through fertilizers) and resilience to natural / climate disasters. Of course we all know that fossil fuels come with their own problems, but let's not pretend that we'd have any of the amazing breakthroughs you mentioned in this video without them.
Without watching: Technology
He didn't stay on topic well enough.
What this fella meant to say was free market capitalism…
“It’s ok to put antifreeze in your medicine as long as you list the ingredients on the label”. Libertarianism in one sentence.
I'm a Libertarian. You don't know what Libertarianism is. You have been feed straw-man arguments and propaganda.
This video is biased in favor of statism.
*Childhood Immunization.*
While the reality is that there are myriad factors in extending life expectency, no other single factor has made such a profoundly positive impact on our lives.
Kind of disagree w that.
if we as a human race went from 6 to 4 and eliminated competition, we could focus so much more on extending life (just by going from 6 to 4 you will increase lifetimes to well over 100 IMHO)
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I also like this
Madness isn't it the human body
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Ever since 2020, Humanity as a species has failed to honor every social contract ever concocted. It’s about time we embraces the idea that “the purpose of life is to end”.
To end for one, to survive for another, it's continuum process.
Let me guess. By first reducing it to half? ... Are we counting the life expectancy of collonialised indigenous people who we westeners violate to create our super civilized high life expectancy states? I guess theirs hasn't changed much in that time. Are we counting the life expectancy of sentient life which has feelings? As far as i know we kill billions of animals similar to us at an age equivalent to a child or a teenager. Sure. Let's reduce our sample set and perspective to a tiny narcissistic point and have party for how cool we are. Sorry, but F that.
interesting point, either set of statistics probably don't include the aboriginals & other tribal folks or animals, there has definitely been progress for a subset of humanity (rich) but the cost has definitely been great and paid by the rest.
Sounds very interesting I really enjoy tedtalk
The domino effect of share, keeps me focused. Thanks
And doomed their race while doing so. RIP everyone
What do you mean by that?
@@tobiasjosekoch3475
Evil is a flaw. Not eternal. Imperfect. Will burn itself out. Must be eliminated at a time TBD. Pooof!
you can skip the first 5 minutes because he says nothing
oil and the patriarchy
First
get a life
A big shout out to the pioneers to medical research and what drove it even more - technology from the industrial revolution. THE BRITISH. 🇬🇧
It's a shame that not all demographics enjoy the benefits of humanities extended life expectancy. It's said that the greatness of a Nation can be judge by how it treats its weakest members. I guess I'd propose that the world's population should be judged by the longevity of its most impoverished, oppressed, and subjugated, citizens. The disparity in life expectancy is extraordinary between different communities right here in the richest nation on the planet, let alone around the world. That's unconscionable.
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Not dying while young a great achievement. Longer lives when you are old and infirm is far less good for society when the common resources are used to make it happen by centrally planned force. Turns out more free people likely matches this trend of longer lives. If you want to give credit to big government, then you need to subtract out the death, injuries, property destruction, mental disorders and mal-directed dollars for their wars. And of course for not following the prior FDA food pyramids.
Just what I need to hear!🙏
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Life expectancy has decreased. It’s in the Bible. From over 900 years close to 1000 years, to a maximum now of just over 100 for NOT the majority, but only for some.
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@@dagmarland It’s because of the increase of evil.
We are the last generations of of the whole life so our ages are shorter than previous generation
@@freedom-jp8zh The Bible also says, look at a woman’s children: Each child is weaker from her firstborn on down. The earth is also old and weak and poisoned. It used to take 2 men to carry a bunch of grapes. Now fruit is small and more tasteless by the year.
To be fair both after Adam and Eve and after Noah there was a lot of inbreeding.