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I think the point is that Japan can live without nuclear power. As a collectivist society, Japanese have voluntarily cut down on energy usage. http://www.huffin

• potatolicious 14y ago
  Unless Japan has gone back to an agrarian economy and are lighting up oil lamps at night, I doubt they've reduced their power consumption by anything other than a token amount. A speed bump in the need for more power generation capacity.
• zxcdw 14y ago
  Anyone can live without nuclear power. Everyone can live with solar power. Most people can live without electricity at all. The point is that nobody wants to do it though. The problem for Japan is that they either have to buy power elsewhere, settle for using less power(most power is consumed by industrial facilities which try to make profit, mind you) or find a way to generate all the power required very densely while NOT using nuclear power. If they won't use nuclear power, then what? Buying causes expenses, people pay - quality of life goes down. The same happens if they try to make the industrial power consumption go down - profits die - people pay. I personally can't think of any other way for a densely populated country as Japan to prouce power than nuclear power, without giving up some of the quality of life. How much they need to sacrifice depends on the area though.