OPINION | Population collapse and the RH Law mistake [Being Right By Jemy Gatdula] READ:
Unfortunately, that Malthusian mindset was completely wrong. The world is not heading towards overpopulation. The world is just simply too big for us. And if aThus, “the global population was projected to peak in 2064 at 9.73 billion people and decline to 8.79 billion in 2100.
China, the supposed upcoming superpower, is seen to have its population halved by 48% by the end of this century, with India and Nigeria overtaking China’s predicted 732 million. Because of its deranged one child policy and a preference for boys, China, forecast to become the largest economy by 2035, will gratifyingly see it returning to second place again to the US by 2098.
Pew Research Center, meanwhile, points out that “other advanced countries have also begun to experience declining birth rates. Italy, Japan, France and Belgium are among the nations that have reported sudden drops in births about nine months after the start of the pandemic, compared with the previous year” . Also, as mentioned in this column previously: “Official figures for England and Wales reported a record 50.1% of women being childless by the age of 30.
Which brings us to the wisdom of the RH Law. As pointed out by the Supreme Court : “The population of the country kept on galloping at an uncontrollable pace. From a paltry number of just over 27 million Filipinos in 1960, the population of the country reached over 76 million in the year 2000 and over 92 million in 2010. The executive and the legislative, thus, felt that the measures were still not adequate. To rein in the problem, the RH Law was enacted.
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