What is the cause of Japan's low birth rate?

[File0]

Originally Posted by Rauisufirippu

I think the world will be overrun by Arabs in x years.

What do you mean? How exactly will they overrun the world, by number or...?
I really don't understand.

[MMM]

Originally Posted by Ronin4hire

I'm thinking in terms of consumption rather than space.

The fact is that Japan cannot sustain it forever.

They are much more environmentally conscious and less wasteful than American, as a society as a whole.

And no country can sustain it forever.

[Sinestra]

Originally Posted by MMM

They are much more environmentally conscious and less wasteful than American, as a society as a whole.

And no country can sustain it forever.

Very true no country can sustain it forever. However if Americans were even half as environmentally conscious as the Japanese i believe greener tech would take a hold faster here and a lot cities would not be as dirty. One of things i hate is when i go into DC our nations capital and i just see how dirty a lot of is, i think i wonder what foreigners would think (even though i already know)

Bottom line no country in the world can no longer avoid important topics like pollution, over populations and dwindling natural resources. I read recently there is going to be a clean drinking water shortage in number of years though i didnt trust the numbers that were stated.

[Nyororin]

Originally Posted by MMM

They are much more environmentally conscious and less wasteful than American, as a society as a whole.

And no country can sustain it forever.

If Japan were cut off from overseas imports - it would not be able to support half the population on the land in Japan. Japan has honestly lost all of it`s ability to be self sufficient.

And even if virtually all the arable land was utilized for farming and land production, there still isn`t enough to get everyone by at subsistence levels.

In a world where imports and exports are perfectly normal, and the worry of being cut off from them is pretty close to zero, self-sustenance doesn`t really carry the weight it should...
But I know one of the reasons I chose to live where I do is that it has a large enough garden attached that I could feasibly use to keep my family alive.

[Ronin4hire]

Originally Posted by MMM

They are much more environmentally conscious and less wasteful than American, as a society as a whole.

And no country can sustain it forever.

That's true.

But it wasn't my point.

I think countries like Sweden, Norway and New Zealand have a chance to sustain their levels of consumption indefinitely. All these countries are similar in geographic size to Japan but have really low populations comparitively and Scandinavians at least are investing a lot of time and money into green technology.

Norway and New Zealand are under 5 million. Sweden is under 10 million.

[manganimefan227]

Episode 20 of Clannad shows this issue

[Sinestra]

Originally Posted by Ronin4hire

That's true.



Norway and New Zealand are under 5 million. Sweden is under 10 million.

Thats interesting i didn't think their respective populations were that low. The crappy thing is all the oil companies in the US have already started to move and have been for a while and prepare for the end of the oil age. They are buying up Green technology contracts and patents like hotcakes and sitting on them. Its easy to see why.

[Ronin4hire]

Originally Posted by Sinestra

Thats interesting i didn't think their respective populations were that low. The crappy thing is all the oil companies in the US have already started to move and have been for a while and prepare for the end of the oil age. They are buying up Green technology contracts and patents like hotcakes and sitting on them. Its easy to see why.

Oh yeah.. I've heard about this.

It f*cking sucks what these corporations are doing.

[TalnSG]

Why is the population declining? If you follow the discussion in another thread, in the UK and other countires it is perhaps a lack of sperm donors. (only 1/2 joking here)

Originally Posted by Brass

I state that most men want a feminine woman, and that makes me a chauvinist?

Depends on your chosen definition of "feminine". You do realized the basic definition only refers to a human with female body parts, right? In that case, I would agree.

But the tone of your posts would lead one to believe you meant something less agreed upon by the masses, so your comment becomes considerably less relevant.

[Ryzorian]

I wouldn't say "feminism" persay is part of the western problem, it's more "liberal socialism" and controled population growth aka Ronin's gibberish, that's causeing the problem. Feminism as Brass is describeing it is just part of that liberal elitist philosophy. They teach this crap in school now, the colleges are riff with it. It will destroy America as well as other western cultures. It's partly why the US is in decline and most of Europe is in freefall.

Ronin, a population must have a birth rate over 2.1 to maintain itself. Failure in this means decline and failure of that culture period. You can take that to the bank. The US barely maintains a 2.1 birth rate because we have 12 million plus Mexicans who, thank God, reproduce. Europe will decline and end up Islamic because the White European culture's birth rate is below 1.8 or lower and the islamic immigrants birth rate can exceed 6. Population density for maintainence of a culture is basic social science you learn in "social science 101".