Japanese life expectancy falls in 2022 for 2nd straight year - The Mainichi
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The average life expectancy of Japanese people declined in 2022 for the second straight year, affected significantly by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the health ministry.
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Anecdotally, I keep seeing more and more obese Japanese people and more and more eating junk. It's not terribly surprising, in that case.
Huh, is this a world-wide trend? The US's life expectancy keeps falling too...
Not really, a lot of countries already reversed the trend from 2021
The US is one of the worst performers.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01450-3
There were also instances where deceased people were misrepresented as still living so relatives could collect on their pension. When the government began cracking down and the numbers corrected, the reported population of extreme elderly shrank. Obviously it isn’t the only reason, but it may have some impact.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/scandal-missing-100-year-olds-graying-japan/story?id=11393615
Wondering if it’s Covid
From the very first line of the article and the blurb autopulled into the body of the post:
Still wondering if it’s Covid
Yeah, it’s a mystery all right.
I will express a very unpopular and controversional opinion, but truth can be cold and merciless: if we don't make life interplanetary a lot of people will die of starvation from overpopulation in a few decades.
Elderly people, while being an important source of wisdom, are objectively a burden to every society, economically and sanitaryly. They can't be the majority.
We need young and productive people to keep any form of society going. I'm not saying that coronavirus was a good thing but maybe, just maybe, reducing life expectancy is not such a tragedy, for now.
Please reply objectively and rationally, not with your gut
And you think we will make significant enough farms on foreign worlds to make any dent in this in the next few decades? If we can't make enough food with a planet that's literally designed with us in mind, there is no hope of making it work anywhere else that we can reach.
I’m confused. You reference the challenges associated with an aging population and seem to be attributing it to over population. Isn’t it the reverse?
Longtermism is just modern day eugenics and ignores the people living today in favor of some nebulous future.
Longtermism poses a real threat to humanity
We somehow manage to feed more then the total human biomass in livestock as well as waste more than a third of the food we produce. We are far from eating in the most efficient way possible.
It's going to be far easier to grow enough food for 10 billion people on Earth than to somehow do it on Mars lol