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Originally Posted by MMM
They are much more environmentally conscious and less wasteful than American, as a society as a whole.
And no country can sustain it forever.
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If Japan were cut off from overseas imports - it would not be able to support half the population on the land in Japan. Japan has honestly lost all of it`s ability to be self sufficient.
And even if virtually all the arable land was utilized for farming and land production, there still isn`t enough to get everyone by at subsistence levels.
In a world where imports and exports are perfectly normal, and the worry of being cut off from them is pretty close to zero, self-sustenance doesn`t really carry the weight it should...
But I know one of the reasons I chose to live where I do is that it has a large enough garden attached that I could feasibly use to keep my family alive.