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The International Council for Global Health Progress and the International Longevity Center, together with UNESCO, have organized this international forum to study the Malthusian revolution which has occurred in the 20th century. I have adopted this term to refer to the fact that a sixty-year-old person today can have a life expectancy of another twenty years, which could even extend to thirty or forty years in the course of the next century. Such extraordinary longevity brings with it a need for long-term planning for the older generation that is built on a sound social and economic structure. The unprecedented demographic situation brings up social, political, economic and ethical questions which we have included for discussion at this conference.
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Jasmin, C. (2000). A Malthusian Revolution. In: Butler, R.N., Jasmin, C. (eds) Longevity and Quality of Life. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4249-0_1
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