people are living longer now In general, people are living longer now. Discuss the causes of this phenomenon. Use specific reasons and details to develop your essay. There is the opinion that people have lifetime longer nowadays. I agree with this statement and give relevant instance of reasons why it happened. First of all, humanity have found effective medicaments for treating diseases. For example during Second World War two scientists discovered antibiotics namely the penicillin. Since that There are no problems with insignificant injuries. In addition this discovery helped to treat usual illnesses such as flu. The working of scientists also boots treating ability in surgery, decease detection. Some type of deceases are not existing now, for instance variole. Secondly, the food became more available than one hundred years ago. Success was reached in cultivation fruits and sereals. It was received resistant seed breeds which be able to grow in severe conditions. Also developing of filtration water from salts and heavy metal ions did water more cheap in dry regions. One of the most important invention in water filtration, I suppose, is ion exchange resins. Thanks to the resins it may to receive good quality drink water. In conclusion, this phenomenon was caused by inventions and discoveries of scientists. If we compare the quantity of scientific discoveries in the last hundred years and from 1000 to 1900 we note that these quantities will be equal or slightly differ