[guyzero]

Japan, a country famous for no one knowing what its culture is.

[dyauspitr]

Reading about it in books and watching anime won’t prevent them from going functionally extinct in less than 200 years.

[guyzero]

No one cares. Japanese culture today is nothing like it was 200 years ago.

[dyauspitr]

I care. I don’t want the country of Japan to be a bunch of starving geriatrics a few decades from now.

[functionmouse]

I care

[kordlessagain]

doubtful

[N_Lens]

Ever heard of Malthus?

[goodpoint]

Yes, a deeply flawed theory.

[trumpdong]

Right. No species has ever overpopulated itself to extinction. Certainly no human sect. Why are there statue heads on an unpopulated island anyway?

[N_Lens]

The point is Malthus was very popular in his day and his predictions appeared iron clad, just like predictions about population collapse seem to be today. Many countries enacted population control programs due to his influence.

Reality often has a funny way of evading predictions.

[triceratops]

I don't believe that will happen.

[dyauspitr]

It will if nothing changes. That’s a certainty. But yes something might change.