Our young population is our natural resource.

Uneven world
Benjamin G. Defensor
November 06, 2011 01:41

THERE will be seven billion people in the world this year and the usual doomsday scenarios will abound. Mass Media are busy squeezing the last ounce of novelty from the 7th billionth baby and there is bound to be as many 7th million babies as there are countries counting.

In 1999, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Anan had his picture taken Bosnian baby, Adnan Mevic, said to be the Earth’s 6th billionth baby. For all the publicity that the Mevic family had, they continue to struggle in poverty. This time around, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-mon has refrained from naming a symbolic 7th billionth Earthling because of the cruel world the baby will face.

Abetting perversion

Economics or morality?

BENJAMIN G. DEFENSOR

OUR efforts as a developing nation to ape our supposed betters in the developed world are a major aspect of the furor over the Reproductive Health Bill. The RH Bill is touted to be a major economic step towards attaining the status of a developed nation. Economics is a painful subject for us for we are now considered one of the sick nations of Asia after being one of the leading would-be tigers just a few decades back. Our dismal science is supposed to be the result of our social naiveté.