People born today can expect to live longer than people in previous generations. What are some of the positive and negative implications of this phenomenon? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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advance world, people can have longer

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. Longevity is a tool in the case of people who are serving

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society

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. To be more precise, there are people who are doing something good for

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, it would be

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of or relating to a phenomenon

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if they live a long

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and serve for a longer period. There are people who lost

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if they lived longer.

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span can lead to a shortage of necessary resources: food, minerals and water. What I mean is, there can be an acute shortage of the natural resources if people keep on taking birth and not dying for a long period of time. The rate of population growth will keep on increasing if the mortality rate

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, it will lead to a shortage of vital resources. As population will keep on increasing and sustainable use of resources is not possible.

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Lexical resource: 4.0

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Topic Vocabulary:

life expectancy
seasoned workforce
health advancements
chronic conditions
social welfare systems
pension plans
policy adjustments
aging population
cultural experiences
loneliness
mental health
geriatric care
consumption of resources
environmental stresses
climate change
resource depletion

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People born today can expect to live longer than people in previous generations. What are some of the positive and negative implications of this phenomenon? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Fully explain your ideas

In many countries are investing new technology to deal with the public. Why it is happening? Do you think it is an appropriate use of goverment money?

Nowadays there is a tendancy to relocate overseas for lucrative jobs.While a faction of people holds the notion that this movement is challanging (?)for juveniles, others argue that it is better for children.

Childood obesity is an increasing problem in Australia as many as two thirds of children are now obese. Schools have a responsilbility to monitor what their students eat and the amount of exercise they do. To what extend do you agree to this statement?