dilip: over the history of mankind, the human population has been increasing in a slow pace over thousands of years. the improvements in medicine have increased this pace. but with the advent of stem cell research and its application, the rate of population increase may soar, creating problems that we can not imagine today. once the genie is out of the bottle it can not be placed back. the future governments will have to decide how to manage the world population explosion when people may live to be two or three hundred years old. will they choose to place a limit on child birth? or will the answer be the creation of man made pandemics or huge world wars in order to kill millions of people over a relatively short period of time? can you tell me if the stem cell capabilities are a blessing or will it cause the end of the human civilization as we now know it? what this new technology offers may be the right answer to the prayers of an individual patient, but it may be a deadly poison for the humanity as a whole. the use of body part repairs and transplantations of manufactured organs, will not only take the existing class systems of those who have and those who have not, to new heights, but they will also create a chasm between those who are allowed live and those who are not.
