▶ Your Answer :
Unprecedented population growth in the world has created many problems such as food shortage and traffic congestion. While some developed countries promote birth rate to achieve sustainable population for their nations, some developing countries regulate the population growth to avoid problems. In my opinion, controlling birth rate cannot morally and economically be justified.
In some cases, it is necessary that government need to control their population. In China, for example, there are excessively many people living in the major city. If the government is failed to decline over population, the city will be crowed and cause numerous issues such as insufficiency of food and pollution created by heavy traffic. As we have seen, it is inevitable that government need to control the population at sustainable level by charging more taxes in accordance with the number of child.
On the other hand, there are some arguments that regulating the number of child would cause more serious problem. In short-term, it may works effectively but when it comes to next generation, there will not be enough tax payers who sustain nation’s economy. For instance, in many countries in Europe, they encourage people to have more children because these generations would pay for their government when they grow up. Having said that, every life on Earth, particularly a human being, is precious and deserved to be born freewill.
Therefore, I am convinced that the birth control should not be a decision made by government, but people who have family. In order to make a right choice, we need to have a wide perspective on this matter. |