Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070

Re:Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070 by connectsnk on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @08:50AM (#35712842)

Please do not downvote this. At least present your side of view and educate us. Many of us feel that productivity/ money are not the goals of life. That humans are putting too much pressure on the planet by consuming resources and in the end it’s going to be detrimental for our own existence.

Please let us know why we are wrong.

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Re:Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070 by qwytw on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @09:06AM (#35713050)

Because having disproportionally more old than young people in a society is extremely unlikely to result in a higher QoL. The opposite is much more likely..

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Re:Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070 by connectsnk on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @05:32PM (#35720294)

In the short term yes but in the very long term, the old people will die out.

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Re:Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070 by BjoernKW on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @09:09AM (#35713094)

These are a few of my previous comments on the matter:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35357326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35362526

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Re:Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070 by connectsnk on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @05:34PM (#35720312)

Can you explain your claims please?

>Even the current number of humans alive - let alone people yet to be born - can't be maintained without continued growth, innovation, and the paradigm shifts resulting from that innovation and growth.

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Re:Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070 by BjoernKW on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @08:31PM (#35721762)

More people require more food and more energy, both of which need to be produced, This can only happen through economic growth and efficiency gains.

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Re:Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070 by midoridensha on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:50AM (#35725122)

More people could live with much less energy if they didn't all drive around in 3-ton fossil-fuel-burning metal boxes and live in huge, separate houses with HVAC.

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Re:Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070 by BjoernKW on Thursday April 27, 2023 @06:21AM (#35725901)

Thank you for most entitled comment in this thread so far.

People in developing or newly industrialized countries typically don't drive SUVs or live in individual houses with HVAC.

This idea that we could solve the climate change problem entirely by restricting the amount of energy people are allowed to consume in the Western world is a misguided and quaintly privileged point of view.

For most of the rest of the world limiting growth would come down to population control and demanding people remain in abject poverty.

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Re:Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070 by nashashmi on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @09:01AM (#35712975)

People need to prioritize people over materials.

Yet right now they are prioritizing heavy materialistic living over a bigger population. It is why the world "can't take the pressure of a huge population" argument surfaces.

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Re:Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070 by nashashmi on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @10:48PM (#35722726)

https://youtube.com/shorts/mnYRqE1lC0E?feature=share

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