I just felt that this one needed its own the thread. It’s an answer to a comment from a thread posted earlier.
The argument is that tumejazana sana Kenya and I countered with this reply.
If population sizes are such a huge issue then why is China a super power? In fact let me just point out to you the most populated places on earth : Monaco, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau, Gibraltar, Taiwan, Bahrain… hio list unaiona aje? Do those look like poor countries? On the contrary these are economic power houses. Jehovah God of heaven is not crazy when he says fill the earth. Unless of course you don’t believe in Him. Americans adopted abortion full throttle in the 1970s and that didn’t improve the economy. (Abortion being one of the key population control methods on the planet.)
In fact the American economy faltered and declined and America’s girls’ fertility decreased drastically. And worst of all crimes sort of increased in some black neighborhoods. Abortion was meant to tackle the population in crime prone black neighborhoods. Also some economists have argued that since arbotion was legalised in America in 1973 the total economic loss caused by the over 50 million abortions to the American economy is somewhere in the order of $35 trillion dollars. Let that sink in. $35 trillion dollars lost to the U.S. economy. The U.S. GDP is currently just over $18trillion.
We are talking lifetime earnings, buying power, baby clothes, diapers, the houses these 50 million babies would have bought, the cars they would have owned etcetera… zote zilitupwa dustbin and still counting. Woefully still is the contribution to society that those 50 million citizens could have brought. We are talking contributions in education research, sports, medical research, the arts, politics, maybe one of them would have been president instead of Bush.
And yes, Americans have aborted the whole of Kenya’s population plus ten million more since 1973. 3000 babies are aborted daily in the U.S. In China abortions total an estimated 400 million over the decades. 400 MILLION PEOPLE ABORTED IN CHINA. Economic value on the Chinese economy… who the fuck knows.
Here in Kenya a sizeable number of girls also procure abortions nowadays. Has that improved their lives in any way? I’ll let them be the judges. But I have enough relatives who decided to keep the baby(ies) and those babies changed those women’s lives. In the U.S. some towns are dead… just zombie towns with a few old people, watu hawazaani. Kuja Central Kenya mnajua the ravages of alcohol the less said the better.
Twende China did population control improve the economy? Not really. In fact it created stigma, gender imbalance and other social problems. Today there’s even a missing women phenomena, where boys outnumber girls. Hakuna mabibi wa kuoa. Read about the ''LITTLE EMPERORS" phenomena in China where because people were only allowed to have boys, these boys became spoilt, lazy brats. And there’s no competition to push them to achieve. Girl child infanticides then increased unchecked. Due to the one child policy China’s huge work force is ageing rapidly and there are no replacements workers coming through in the near future. And the same ageing phenomena issue is happening in Germany , South Korea and Japan. In fact some conspiracy theorists pointed out that the war in a Syria was started as a pretext to provide Germany with a labor force for their humongous and labor intensive industries. Their population is ageing, hawana wafanya kazi and they need skilled workers.
In Nyanza Province the AIDS pandemic in the 1990s wrecked havoc on the adult population. The strong workers were removed from the economy. Did the reduced population improve people’s lives? Of course not. With the parents gone, formerly rich households were reduced to paupers. No food. Farms went unattended. School Fees’ weren’t paid thus children dropped out and we all know how that story goes.
One of your most astute proponents, Field Marshall has also always argued that we are overpopulated in Kenya, so, let me today take this opportunity to bring the argument closer home: lets look at Nairobi for instance. One of the most populated places in Kenya. Yet, the richest. In this city of millions, opportunities abound. And the denizens will tell you so and PROVE TO YOU SO. In this city dreams are thought up and dreams come true. Trillions of shillings exchange hands here every single day. Granted there are problems, but the sheer numbers of the people in this city guarantee that hutalala njaa. Doesn’t that already render your population argument moot. Twende poorly populated Baringo na akina Turkana… wacha hata niachie hapo vitu zingine unaona they don’t need explanation.
There are pros and cons of a huge population but they are often resolved through good leadership. Money funneled into schools. People get literate and learn the value of having smaller families. But a large population isn’t necessarily a bad thing. America has over 300 million citizens and they’ve managed to turn that into an economic advantage. Take Nigeria another nation with a huge population. Some industries like Nollywood and the music industry are really benefiting from a huge consumer base.