Nope, mortality stats for the developing world, as well as medieval and early modern times. This is where we can dive into the statistical swamp big time, if you want. We can argue about the relative influence of childhood mortality, coronary disease (a major killer not so long ago, much as it is now),…

Statins are safe in the sense that they won't kill you if you overdose (as with aspirin). A very common side effect is pervasive muscle pain, and safe doesn't always mean pleasant or without problems. There's always a risk/reward calculation that you need to go through with your doctor.

Powering all this crap will be the interesting part. So far, it looks like we won't have even the possibility of "break-even" fusion before 2030, or working reactors before 2050 (assuming that they actually get fusion to work, which is, as usual, highly doubtful). Meanwhile, peak oil is still trudging towards us…