{"product_id":"longevitys-impact-on-health-wealth-and-aging-von-dongsheng-chen","title":"Longevity's Impact on Health, Wealth, and Aging","description":"\u003cp\u003eOnly by standing at a height of 10,000 m to see the world and observing the world\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom the perspective of one hundred years can we have the vision and persistence,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot deviate from reality, and gain an earlier and further view.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf the 250 thousand years history of mankind from the hunting-gathering era was\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econdensed into one day, then in the first 23 h and 58 min and 30 s of that day, human\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeings would be in the long process of evolution from hunting-gathering civilization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto agricultural civilization. Therewas no significant change in human living standards\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein general until 1800 A.D., when human life expectancy was not much different from\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat of the hunting-gathering era-basically 30-35 years old. However, in the last\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eminute and a half of that day, with the emergence of the Industrial Revolution,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emankind seemed to have opened the door of miracle. The Industrial Revolution lives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eup to its reputation as a \"great revolution\". It has started the rapid development\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof human civilization in the past two and a half centuries. Technological progress\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehas made mankind break through limits and created unprecedented prosperity. The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprogress of agricultural technology has enabled mankind to solve hunger problems on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea large scale and continuously improve nutrition. The use of coal and oil has greatly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimproved the efficiency of human production and laid the foundation for the industrial\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esystem. The high-speed iteration and upgrading of computer and communication\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etechnology have been constantly changing human communication and lifestyle and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehave greatly reduced the costs of human production. Since the Industrial Revolution,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehuman life expectancy has doubled. By 2019, the global life expectancy reached\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e72.6 years old, and the life expectancy in developed countries generally surpassed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe threshold of 80 years old. The global population also increased from less than\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 billion in the early eighteenth century to 7.7 billion in 2019. Today, we are used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto the bustling world until the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc across the globe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein 2020, triggering memories of the 1918 Flu Pandemic (also known as the Spanish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlu) that had been buried for more than a century. If we take this once-in-a-century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epandemic as the beginning of the next day, we cannot help but ask the following questions: Will prosperity after the Industrial Revolution continue to be in place\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etomorrow? Can the human beings who ride in this blue ark in the vast universe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esurvive the era of resource scarcity and march toward endless growth?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recent years, people of insight have actually felt that mankind is standing at\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe crossroads of our times. I think that from the perspective of the span of time and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003espace over a hundred years, the changes of our times we are facing include three\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003easpects. The first is the great change in globalization and the world landscape. The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esecond is the great change in civilization form and production and lifestyle brought\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eabout by taking carbon peaking and carbon neutrality as development goals. The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elast is the great change of mankind as a species in the era of longevity. These three\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003easpects influence each other and will become the main forces affecting the global\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efuture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781835208380\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781835208380","offer_id":46970685325637,"sku":"9781835208380","price":35.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/products\/23a9295a-bf61-43f9-95ca-cb4e6cc62e06.jpg?v=1694141660","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/longevitys-impact-on-health-wealth-and-aging-von-dongsheng-chen","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}