I was reading an article today about the number of empty homes in Japan. It seems that due to the decrease in population there are 8 million empty homes and the expectation is that within 15 years up to 20% of homes will be empty. I actually find that encouraging. Maybe it is possible to contract the human footprint on the planet. According to projections the Japanese population could go down by 40 Million before the end of the century. If that trend expands to other countries there is hope that humans could peak and then start to decrease. Maybe we need to change our view of family and stop encouraging people to have children. In view of the havoc humans are wreaking on the world maybe we should penalise rather than support large families.
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