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>>Simon_+(OP)
The whole world is going this way: Japan is just an early adopter. It’ll be good for the planet to have fewer people: our challenge is to run a flourishing society that isn’t based on continual growth.

>>michae+p6
Citation needed. The earth has tons of resources and can easily support several times the number of current humans.

It is bad for the species to have fewer people. It's also bad for the production of novel art.

>>sneak+N6
Citation needed - tons of resources are finite while consumption growth through population is exponential.

>>gmerc+N9
The other planets, moons, and the rest of the solar system has tons of resources too.

>>Tozen+Ea
How much biomass and quality of life do they support? Moving metals onto the earth is "resources" but not the ones that sustain human populations.