Why Depopulation is The Biggest Threat Facing Japan (And The Rest of The World)

From Paul Ehrlich to the World Economic Forum, the fear of overpopulation continues to be pushed on the rest of the world.
But the greatest threat facing most countries is actually depopulation.
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[kikiursalone]

South Korea too, unfortunately, has the same problem! Actually, if I'm not mistaken, they may have it worse! So sad!

[notme]

You completely neglected the actual issue. Which is work and education. It is is in japanese culture to work and study hard. With all the time ive been in japan ive seen it a million times. People working 17 hour days, 7 days a week and students killing themselves for bringing shame on themselves for getting an A- on a test in school. The strive to be so porfessionaly successful that they literally have zero interest in relationships and starting families. Its absurd what percentage of the japanese population under the age of 40 that are still virgins. Its nuts

[Dxppx]

Very interesting! Love those short and informative videos!

[JedPotts-jvux]

population density has a massive effect on birthrates, people living in areas with low population density are far more likely to have children, and have children younger, and have more children.

people living in areas with high population density have fewer children, later in life, if they have kids at all.

solving depopulation requires employment to be de-centralised to encourage people to spread out, and artificial population growth to cease entirely. countries that can avoid population decline via immigration should absolutely use immigration to MAINTAIN their population and keep their economies alive, but attempting to use it to continue population growth is utterly unsustainable. all they're acheiving by continuing to grow is worsening the factors that are driving down birthrates.

the coming decades are our only chance to adapt our economies to "not having population growth" so that if shrinkage is unavoidable we're at least prepared to handle it and avoid "population freefall". better to have a slow increase and a slow decrease than a fast increase and a fast decrease.

[michaelman]

Malthus and all his ilk have unleashed an unfathomable evil.

[royalegamer]

They stopped the traditional asian civilisation culture of patriarchy and arranged marriages. So naturally people stopped getting pressured to get married and having kids.

[alanzimmerman]

To say a poor, small town losing population to big cities is analogous to what would happen in a global depopulation is specious indeed. Completely different scenarios. Yet that's the only suggestion given for why depopulation is bad. Society was a vibrant place last time we were at 6 billion people. It can be vibrant at that population again.

[BlueFlameFoxX]

I can see robots replacing humans, and programs investing in people making babies as a focus. In the worst case, factory/farming genome and modifying people to breed more.

[graysonshaw]

60 million + babies have been murdered here in the last 50 years

[countrymanvideos]

as it is right now the world can support a population of 50 billion with improved ag hort technolgy maybe a 100 billion

[jesahias_]

You guys should do YouTube shorts. It will help grow your channel faster

[konyvnyelv.]

Now poverty is reduced but at the expense of exploiting every resource on earth. I don't want all the world turned into Calcutta

[seanhartnett]

2:10. This poverty figures are questionable, a lot of people live on the margin.

[Sheepy]

Also Japan has a TON of debt and without future tax payers it will crush the Japanese Economy more than the lost 3 decades.

[critenks]

Is nobody gonna call him out on his silly conclusion? Can you prove that the depopulation causes all these problems or all these problems cause depopulation itself?

[MasterPoucksBestMan]

I say this as a veteran and IT professional. Get rid of the self-checkouts and other job destroying tech (not just in Japan), and then maybe there will be enough jobs for people to afford to have a child. If the only choices are minimum-wage retail or CEO, it's no wonder no one wants to have a child. Name a profession, any profession. Guess what? We only need so many of them, especially with tech that allows one of them to do the job it used to take 10 of them to do. When, as a made up example, 1% are CEOs, 19% are skilled trades and 80% are fast food and retail workers, it's no wonder that not enough people make the money necessary for a family. The CEO's don't have the time for it and the cashiers and stockers don't have the money for it.

[winstonjen]

I pity people who deny overpopulation. How do you plan to feed a trillion people?

[Nov]

People always harp on about how declining demographics are a "threat", but I fail to see what it threatens other than "line goes up forever" economics.

[jonathanellis]

I’m nine seconds in, and my initial impulse answer to your opening question was “porn”

[eigelgregossweisse]

Women are also the problem themselves, not just the work/life situation in general, the government, etc...