I’m pretty sure they would. It’s not like they’d like to see their seaside properties go underwater within their lifetimes.
Well, it’s becoming a genuine concern because of the advances of medicine and the growing understanding of the aging process. Imagine a guy like Musk living for a 100 or 200 years, imagine the accumulation of wealth.
I don’t know. I kindof suspect that:
- The billionaires may somewhat believe their own propaganda and maybe the climate chang denying billionaires may outnumber the ones who are more in touch with reality.
- The machines that capitalism has built to maintain and intensify wealth concentration may well have escaped the control of their creators. Corporations have wills of their own distinct from that of the people nominally “in charge” like the C-level leaders and board and shareholders.
- Climate change itself may have already passed a point of no return or if it hasn’t, it likely will before even the most powerful manage to redirect the momentum of the system in a different direction.
You wish.
If I were a sociopathic billionaire I would love some degree of global warming. The more you make part of the world unliveable, the more I can charge people for living conditions.
I can create bio domes that have clean cool air and charge people to live in there. I’ve now successfully monetized clean air.
You think Jimmy Carter would be 100years if he was a homeless person. The age-gap between rich and poor will only get bigger. Don’t know if immortality is possible, but extending life is definitely possible. Extending life to 150 or even 200 is within our grasp, even today.
In older mice the best telomere therapies are increasing lifespan by ~15%. Max human lifespan is currently ~120. So, if those same therapies work on old billionaires they still wouldn’t live past 150.
Models for extending life in young mice and mice zygotes hit around ~25%.
200 isn’t within our grasp currently. 150 is if the animal models work on humans. But the treatments work better the younger the animal. Working best on embryos.
Tldr: It’s unlikely today’s billionaires will live past 150 without a breakthrough in telomere research.
Telomere therapies is but one path. There are many different paths that each contribute to a longer life in better shape. I’ve seen at least four different therapies, all very promising. I don’t have article links at hand. Point being, that these therapies are so close that they might already be available, for the exploitation-class.
