The principle of malthus

about montalban

Yes,I agree about this article which state that we should have birth control.In this case we should promote family planning.Having birth control can make our economy to be productive,because nowadays people here in the Philippines doesn't have enough food supply for all the Filipino people.Filipino people doesn't have any work but the population growth are increasing.Maybe havig population control can help our economy in the other side,but it can be a problem because if we have a birth control we people are consider as a human resources if a country does have enough human resources.How can we make our economy developed? We are the one who rule our government and conserve our natural resources.But we should have a good leader that can lead us and a leader who is not corrupt officials so that our economy will develop and improve.

FENIS.sir ala pa man ko kadawat sir sa ko nlng klasmate ako gi gamit...

Practically thinking. I do believe abortine drug and devices is one of the best way to prevent population growth. But is an immoral doing, would you do such things like that when you already know that you will be pregnant. When some people are not that disciplined. They usually think that way.

In my own opinion, I believe in Malthus. Yes, late marriage and sexual abstinence can prevent population growth. But this generation, late marriage and sexual abstinence is not the trend. Many teenagers get easily pregnant and get married at the young age.

In the case of our country, Philippines. I think there is no better way to decrease our population growth. The more poor Filipino, the more population increase.


Salve Marie N. Fenis
4th year-Maawain

michelle mae hora

I agree with Mr. MOntalvan II in his article KRIS CROSSING MINDANAO. They're at mathus again which really centered on the "Reproductive HEalth" that the government is pushing today.Reproductive Health Bill which according to the proponent will help promote the use of artificial contraception in promoting women's health. This bill is premised on the belief that we are poor because we are too many. Further more,this bill was proposed to curb population growth that resulted to high poverty.

Now, they sited the Malthus principles that foresow the world's population out running food supply,leading to decrease food per person.Malthus theory as applied in other countries was succesful in declining population growth but create another problem.The problem which other countries believed on MAlthus principles is now adressing the grim reality of the deminishing human resources.Japan,Italy & Germany are now in the throes of the so called "demographic winter".Demographic winter is define as the decline in the human family. Now there are many countries who had believed Malthus principle are now offering insentives to encouraged child bearing in the attempt to curb population decline.And we dont want Philippines to experience such.Because higher population densities dont necessarily translate into lower personal income.

As they argued that the decline in population means economic growth,lower poverty but its not citing the study done in the past years shows a decline in population but no decline in poverty.Again reproductive health is not a solution of high poverty because of high population.Government must adressed population explosion which could not affect the moral aspect of the Filipinos as the church opposed to the reproductive health.

So,I agree with Montalvan,lets put a stop to use of the teran reproductive health."And I believe these quote"The Family is Crucial to a well Functioning economy particularly in modern economy base on innovation,new ideas and development.

an issue that needs to be tackled

Mr. Montalban stated his disagreement on population control with the use of contraceptives and stressed that population shouldn't be blamed on the problems that we, Filipinos are experiencing nowadays (particularly the problems on food shortage and the exploitation of our natural resources). Thus, Thomas Robert Malthus was not optimistic about the overpopulation and suggested that only ‘moral restraint’ (birth control) could prevent crisis. My stand in this issue is that, the people should be knowledgeable enough tho know what they are capable. Whether they want to have alot of children or not, as lon g as the will be able to provide their children's necessities. People should be given that certain freedom to choose what the want. Considering these people (Montalban and Malthus), I would have agreed to Sir Montalban's perspective because it is not only the population to be blamed . There are alot of contributing factors such as the mismanagement of our recent government. We have alot of resources to provide our needs it's all up to the proper way of management whether to maximize the resources we have or just simply not use it properly. A great example iin which I'm much favor of Montalban is the overpopulation in China and even a great number of people in the USA. They were able to maximixe the people. With that, they had a lot of labor force which in return the people or their constituent is benefited. It's just proper way of handling a situation. And with this issue, the people should be given freedom to choose their will.

MontaLvAn iSsuEs:

For me, i disagree with the issue concerning the population control because we are christian and we do believe that the bible says we should not take life thus we should bring life. Well, population control like contraceptives is clearly an act of crime because you take life. In our crisis today, i think population is not to be blame, we people is responsible for our self. Besides there are lots of ways in improving our economics. It's in the person's will of determination in order to be successful.

For me I agreed to Malthus theory.Projection of population growth made by Thomas Malthus. He based his theory on the population explosion that was already becoming evident in the 18th century, and argued that the number of people would increase faster than the food supply. Population would eventually reach a resource limit (overpopulation). Any further increase would result in a population crash, caused by famine, disease, or war. Malthus was not optimistic about the outcome and suggested that only ‘moral restraint’ (birth control) could prevent crisis. Recent famines in Ethiopia and other countries, where drought, civil war, and poverty have reduced agricultural output, might suggest that Malthus was correct. In the USA, the UK, and many other countries, the agrarian revolution boosted food production, and contraception led to a decline in birth rate; and in some countries population control policies have been introduced.