Dr. Jordan B Peterson and Stephen J Shaw discuss the Birthgap, a term recently coined by Shaw– and the subject of his documentary. They examine the invisible causes of the global population collapse. They describe one of the very bad but not worst case scenario: total societal collapse due to a lack of new children …
Over 70% of the World’s population live in countries that are below replacement fertility levels and this includes poor countries like India and Pakistan. 30% of the World’s population is in countries that have declining populations and this includes China, Japan, South Korea, Italy and Spain. Replacement fertility is 2.07 which means a women will …
Robin Hanson had a lot of tweets about the global fertility crisis. Nextbigfuture has had many articles about the important topic of the fertility crisis. I will be talking with Robin Hanson this Friday and posting a video recording of the conversation. The current fertility situation:https://t.co/pvF6zZ86Ze pic.twitter.com/zwU61xoApZ — Robin Hanson (@robinhanson) August 21, 2023 World …
WeWork reported that there is “substantial doubt” the company will be able to stay in business, citing a “slight decline in memberships” and “increasing competition.” They indicate that avoiding bankruptcy is “contingent upon successful execution of management’s plan to improve liquidity and profitability over the next 12 months.” In March 2016, WeWork raised $430 million …
The Oppenheimer movie has brought up the question of whether two fission bombs were needed to end the war with Japan. This question requires understanding the situation in 1945. Germany did not surrender until after Berlin was taken. Germany was pushed back to near its own borders by Dec, 1944. Germany was mainly defending within …
South Korea only had 18,988 births in May, 2023 which is the lowest births since the agency started compiling the data in 1981. This was a drop of over 5% from May 2022. The number of deaths in the country moved up 0.2 percent over the period to 28,958, resulting in a natural decrease in …
It is the year 2200 and the world has 250 million people. What has happened? Was there a total nuclear war and followed by a famine? Was there a terrible super-pandemic? How can the world have fallen from over 8.1 billion people in 2023 to 250 million. How can there be only 3% of the …
The Japan Times reports, Mitsubishi Motors has suspended its China business indefinitely and will lay off staff after years of poor sales in a market rapidly turning to electric vehicles. China is at about 35% EV today and will head to 50% EV in 2024 and 70% EV in 2025. Car makers without EVs or …
Joe Justice talks about how Toyota has been the number one car company in the world because of their focus on efficiency and quality. However, Toyota’s Corolla and Camry has been displaced as the top car model by the Tesla Model Y. Elon Musk focuses on leading all of his companies (Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, X.Ai, …
The Suzuki Base Spacia 2023 has a fold-down rear seat and a hard table luggage compartment cover that asks as an in-car desk. The car sells for less than US$10,000 in Japan. It is a very clever way of getting a very good office setup in an affordable car. This is showing that with a …
Japan has had regular high speed rail for commuting betweens its cities for decades. N700A trains can reach 285 km/h (177 mph) on 3,000 m (9,843 ft) curves, allowing the maximum operating speed to be raised to 285 km/h (177 mph). All N700 series were upgraded to N700A but there have been new N700S being …