do.rflex wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> No people shouldn't be killed to reduce the population even though
>>
> there are those who seem to advocate it. Education and birth control
> are the key. Probably limiting tax deductions for children to two in
> the US > would help. In the US we seem to have a lot "born agains"
> who feel it > is their duty to have large families even if they don't
> have the wealth > to support one. Similarly we have people in
> impoverished nations who > believe they have to have lots of children
> so some will survive to take > care of them in old age. Education and
> some retirement programs would > solve the problem there.
>
>
> On the other hand:
>
> Go home early and multiply, Japanese told
>
> -Japan's workers are being urged to switch off their laptops, go home
> early and use what little energy they have left on procreation, in an
> attempt to avert demographic disaster.
>
> The drive to persuade employers that their staff would be better off
> at home than staying late at the office comes amid warnings from
> health experts that many couples are simply too tired to have sex.
>
> A survey of married couples under 50 found that more than a third had
> not had sex in the previous month. Many couples said they didn't have
> the energy. A study by Durex found that the average couple has sex 45
> times a year, less than half the global average of 103 times.
>
> "It's a question of work-life balance," Kunio Kitamura, head of the
> Japan Family Planning Association, told Reuters. "The people who run
> companies need to do something about it."
>
> Japan's birth rate of 1.34 is among the lowest in the world and falls
> well short of the 2.07 children needed to keep the population stable.
> If it persists, demographers say the population will drop to 95
> million by 2050 from its 2006 peak of 127.7 million.
>
> This month Keidanren, Japan's biggest business organisation, implored
> its 1,600 member companies to allow married employees to spend more
> time at home. Several firms have organised "family weeks" during which
> employees must get permission to work past 7pm, but most continue to
> squeeze every last drop of productivity from their staff.
>
> In response, the labour ministry plans to submit a bill exempting
> employees with children under three from overtime and limiting them to
> six-hour days.
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/29/japan-sexual-health
Japan is crowded! The drop in population would actually be good for
them. Redo the way the economy works to accommodate the reduction in
population. China is facing the same thing but it is a boon not a
tragedy. Fewer people means more for each individual, more people means
less for each individual.
