TOO MANY! TOO POLLUTED (WELCOME TO POPULATION STUDIES!)

Last thursday, we've met our professor in Population Studies which I can described as very animated, somewhat funny! lively! and her strong voice surely will arouse your interest. One of my classmate commented "artista naman ang isang to".

The first question she asked all of us "Is population studies a lively discussion or a threat?"

Then, all students were asked about their opinion. When my turned came. I said maybe it will be a threat if we talked about preparing war to countries with a very huge population like China because you do not just declare war with that country and even the world" then my teacher replied. Yeah! what a lively discussion. I really laughed after her response, but yeah! talking about population is a sort of very interesting topic.

Especially for a country like the Philippines which was known as top producer of babies and we embark on human labor export. I remember one time when someone asked me why you have so many people in the Philippines where in you have only islands and then I replied well I think it's because anything will live in that country and they can survive the whole year even if they do not have work. I think our streets are extension of our houses because for sure in cold countries you cannot sleep in the street because you will die in such a cold winter. But here, we just sleep anywhere. We are so bless having such a friendly environment.

But I think our government is also quite strategic of declaring war for by no means it is one of way of controlling population. It is so ironic like we keep on saying that we are pro life! but the war in Mindanao was going on for a long time. It seems that we also pro war!

We had discussed also on our first meeting historical background of population studies from ancient time up to the present. Of course, there are pro's and cons and a continous argument arise like is it beneficial to have many people or is it more of disadvantage. The answers will vary and it also depends on the country.

My personal argument will be, It is good to produce more humans as long as we are also thinking of the quality of humans. I've read somewhere sex is a trade of genes, so if we think we cannot produce good genes then why are we proliferating bad products. Is it not enough that we have seen our protege? for just once. I doubt why a lot of Filipinos like to see so many children with the same faces. I just hope that a new technology will be invented where in, when you have pre-natal check-up you can already see the actual face of your child so that the parents will be scared of not producing more. Are they not also tired of looking of the same faces of their children? The worst thing is we can just let them see the world but they can never appreciate the beauty of it. Well, maybe that is the reason why I hate Manila because it is so congested. Too many people on the streets which created noise pollution. In addition to that it is hard to discipline all of them. Too many people for sure is not environmental friendly.

I am interested to learn more on population studies with the kind of professor who is 63 years old but acting like in her 20's for sure it will be a lively discussion.