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Re:Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070 by pjc50 on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @09:06AM (#35713043)
Far too many people in this thread are extrapolating a downwards line forwards for fifty years in the assumption that nothing will change and that nobody will decide to do things differently. Some of the Japanese people being born today - and there are people being born today, the number is not zero - will be alive in 2070.

What unites both questions of sustainability of the environment and of population is the question "what, other than money and its getting and spending, are we for?"

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Re:Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070 by re-thc on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @09:44AM (#35713561)
Nothing will change. It will only get worse. There's also people leaving the country. Short of a miracle nothing can fix Japan's issues. It's deep in its culture.

It's not a merit based society. Even if someone wants to do things differently it's almost impossible to push for it.

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