The graph in this article shows Japanese population having declined from a peak of about 127 million in the year 2000, to about 126 million today. So the loss of population so far amounts to less than 1% in 17 years. This is very significant, representing a reversal of the exponential growth trend that has been in place worldwide since the industrial revolution.
As I discuss above, I feel it's a good thing if the population growth trend is slowed or even gradually reversed. The reasons given in the article for the reversal are a mix of more and less problematic factors. An emphasis on "production of goods" might mean that the same number of people, or even a smaller amount of people, can still have a disproportionate and unsustainable impact on the environment. But much of the article is describing high costs of having children, which seems to be a result of removing expensive social subsidies for families. Given a less encouraging environment, the Japanese are simply choosing to put less energy into family formation and childrearing.
The article discusses how a similar trend is in place among affluent people in Europe and the US. Again, I say it's a good thing that this is the overall trend. But the means are not always so benign: drug wars, "cultural degradation" promoted by the elites, and so forth.
The article extrapolates current trends to claim that the Japanese people will virtually disappear in 300 years. There's no reason to expect such a socially flexible trend to persist for 300 years. But if it does, the extrapolation should be based on percentage declines. That is, according to the graph, the population will decline about 50% over the next 75 years. If the population continues to be cut in half every 75 years for the next 300, the result would be a 16-fold reduction. That is, from the current 126 million, to about 8 million.
This is the same general order of magnitude reduction as called for by the Georgia Guidestones. And it would be accomplished without anyone being killed prematurely at all! No wars, no famine, no genocide; but just consistently below-replacement fertility of ~1.5 children per woman, sustained over about 12 generations.
I was curious about this. How can high real estate valuations be maintained in the face of such a situation? And, why so many empty houses if the population has just recently started to decline? I traced the information to its source, here:
https://qz.com/1112368/abandoned-land-in-japan-will-be-the-size-of-austria-by-2040/
Which explains what seems to be a cultural situation which seems pretty incomprehensible compared to what Americans are accustomed to. The Japanese prefer to buy new houses, and live in them their entire lives. The old houses are abandoned as untouchable "ghost houses" after their owners die.
Joe says there in a hurry and they are killing us off faster and faster.
Book "the age of reason" in pdf by Robert Christian
I am the originator of the Georgia Guidestones and the sole author of its inscriptions. I have had the assistance of a number of other American citizens in bringing the monument into
being. We have no mysterious purpose or ulterior motives. We seek common sense pathways to a peaceful world, without bias for particular creeds or philosophies. Yet our message is in some areas controversial. I have chosen to remain anonymous in order to avoid debate and contention. Our guides must stand on their own merits.
Stonehenge and other vestiges of ancient thought arouse our curiosity but carry no message for human guidance. The Guide- stones have been erected to convey certain ideas across time to others. We hope that these silent stones and their inscriptions will merit a degree of approval and acceptance down the cen- turies, and by their silent persistence hasten in small ways the dawning of an age of reason.
Two interested citizens of Elberton, Georgia, have been in- strumental in bringing this project to completion. They are not sponsors, but have given invaluable assistance. They have served without compensation through motives of public service, even though they may not necessarily agree with the author in all his beliefs. Mr. Wyatt Martin, who has an interest in Georgia's history, served as the project's fiscal agent. He assisted in selecting a site for the monument that would pro- vide public access while remaining within budgetary limits. He enlisted community support for a small public park as a site for
the monument.
M r . Joe Fendley, presently the mayor of Elberton, quarried the massive stones, engraved on them our message, and erected them on the site about eight miles north of Elberton.
monument has been named the Georgia Guidestones. It consists of four large upright blocks of granite, each two meters wide and five meters high. They are arranged to mark the limiting positions of the rising and setting sun in summer and winter. They surround a central stone which is oriented north to south. A channel through this stone is aligned with the celestial pole. On its south face is a sundial marking noontime throughout the year on a closed curve figure which reflects the equation of time, correcting the variations between solar time and time as recorded with uniform human hours. The capstone is inscribed with an appeal to reason in four archaic languages. The monument is intended to combine certain attributes of the Rosetta stone and many of the standing stones which are to be observed throughout Europe as remnants of past human societies.
We believe each human being has a purpose and a significant place in the Divine plan of the universe. The celestial align- ments of the stones symbolize our need to be in harmony with eternal principles manifest in our natures and in the universe around us.
The two large faces on each of the four central stones are in- scribed with ten precepts or guides, the eight faces carrying the same text in a different language. The English version has fewer than one hundred words. The languages were selected for their historical significance and because of their use by people now living. It would not have been possible for us to represent each of the three thousand languages known to exist in the human family today.
It is hoped that as time passes other stones can be erected in outer circles to mark the migrations of the moon and possibly other celestial events. These stones would carry our thoughts in additional languages. Perhaps the stones will be copied in other lands by those who share our hope for a peaceful world based upon shared ethical values and a common respect for human reason.
The Guidestones are not intended to have sectarian appeal. They are a reminder of the challenges that face present and future generations of humanity. They are intended to encour- age efforts to meet those challenges rationally, without favoring particular religions or political systems.
When the big boys in the 90s told us. 500 million people was the plan they used the world optimum population!
It is vitally important that each national government have a considered "Population Policy." The need is urgent and should take precedence over other problems, even those relating to national defense. Population control is a global prob- lem. The actions of one nation have far reaching effects on others. Overcrowding human beings in conditions of squalor and ignorance is dehumanising. It is an evil which must not be tolerated.
Each nation must consider the present and future availability of all resources required for its long continuing survival. With proper allowances for the interchange of commodities that are overabundant in some areas and scarce in others, rational esti- mates must be made of the optimum population which can be sustained by those resources on a perpetual time scale. Each nation must make this determination for its own people. It may give assistance to its neighbors as it chooses and as its assistance is requested. But in the final analysis each nation must determine its own population goals and must formulate plans that will achieve them. No nation, having regulated its
own population, should be expected to burden its citizens with the unwanted surplus of improvident neighbors.
Nations with optimum populations can provide comfort and education for their own citizens and can give assistance to others. They can be good world citizens. Nations which are overcrowded and poverty stricken are problems for the entire world community.