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| Photograph: Sombo Sombo/Alamy |
In poverty-stricken countries of the world
which we may no longer refer to as Third World
countries but rather make full use of the
euphemism 'emerging economies', there is one
inexhaustible natural resource the envy of
First World economic nations; the growth
steady and reliable, of their populations where
the natural increase grows and grows despite
privation, food scarcity, joblessness and lack
of medical care and the unfortunate loss of life
accompanying those lacks. In those countries
governed either by incompetents or a hierarchy
of privileged elites for whom nothing of concrete
value lacks, the great unwashed for whom
sanitation, potable water, basic foodstuffs, power
and health care remain beyond imagination it's
live or perish as fortune rolls her dice, and hope
is lost. Yet wealthy nations grapple with their
confounding statistics that emphasize population
replacement expectations remain mysteriously
misplaced for as the aged die, fewer are born to
replace them. This, even as administrations enact
legislation and expend treasury to enhance
the prospect of child-bearing, offering measures
inconceivable to those others, even while
residents of wealthy nations sneer at their
subsidies, the child care provisions, the health
care, the paid parental leave, as insufficient
in depth and quantity as a persuasive gambit.
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