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[-] kux@lemm.ee 48 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

this story comes out every so often about japan, rarely if ever mentions (slightly) lower births per woman in italy, china, spain, or the same 1.3 as e.g. poland, finland, canada

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?most_recent_value_desc=false

those are 2022 figures but i doubt there's been significant change

there's basically no first world country above the 2.1 replacement rate

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[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 78 points 2 days ago

Huge amount of japanese descent people in Brazil (including me), but I have the feeling the japanese would rather have their country implode than give us nationality

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[-] uraniumcovid@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

imagine being so racist that it forces your country to fall apart. they made their own bed, time for some laying in it.

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[-] hedhoncho@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

Why not just promote immigration. America seems to not have that problem

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[-] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 40 points 2 days ago

Cultural norms around marriage and work-life balance are strangling Japan’s future. Good article, minus one for not exploring innovative or radical solutions to the crisis.

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[-] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago

Good. We need to depopulate by 50%. The earth can't have 8 billion people. There are less than 30,000 polar bears in the whole world.

[-] Phytobus@lemm.ee 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Another insane figure: wild mammals make up only 4% of all mammal biomass in the world, the other 96% is humans and our livestock. That 4% includes all whales, elephants, bears, etc.

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[-] Baggie@lemmy.zip 33 points 2 days ago

If you want people to actually be able to have a family, you need to enable that. My understanding of Japanese society is that you have medium to no personal freedom over how you spend your time, and meeting people is difficult. It feels like they are so intent on shooting themselves in the foot, and then complaining about their foot hurting.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 days ago

A lot of countries are headed there. America isn't keeping their population growth in the replacement category either. Why do you think abortion and immigration are such an issue in America? They want the white people reproducing, not the immigrants. Wherever there is a super strict, racist or almost racist, immigration policy, look at their population growth.

[-] _carmin@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Should they bring millions of indians, africans and arabs to help them? We are seeing how its working wonderfully in the west.

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[-] Jack@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

Try "to function as a society" when the biosphere becomes unlivable. The biggest and root cause of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change is human overpopulation:

The fact that the biggest and root cause of a mass extinction event is being reduced, is a good thing.

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