[Population aging leads to a surge in bear numbers, a path never before envisioned.]
[All the young people have gone to work, and now this is my kingdom, Black Bear King, hahahahaha]
[Can this black bear steal a cassock?]
"If you don't believe it, that just shows you haven't grasped the deeper meaning here," Bi Fang said meaningfully.
Everything is interconnected, especially humans and nature. Changes in human society have a significant impact on nature.
"By the end of the last century, Japan was developing rapidly, and cities were siphoning labor from the surrounding areas like a whale sucking in water, drawing many young people from villages into urban areas, resulting in serious aging in the countryside. As the elderly gradually passed away, many villages even became 'ghost villages.'"
"For instance, in 2015, in Japan, as many as 190 villages ceased to exist."