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Originally Posted by CIAOfficer
During Japan's isolation period, they faced the very thing the entire earth is now facing on a smaller scale:
A creation with the unlimited ability to breed and reproduce, placed in an area with limited (in their case VERY limited) food, resources, space, and time.
Is there any lessons from that period that the rest of the world could learn from today?
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During Japan's isolation period disease was also rife, and infant mortality was high. There was also a more disproportionate spread of the resources, with the poor being much poorer and the rich being much richer. Fish stocks were better in the past. They also had a lot more little wars which helped keep the population on an even keel, people still frequently killed themselves, and sometimes samurai murdered peasants 'just because' and natural disasters were just as common as today, only with bigger impact on people's lives. And how was time limited exactly?