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RAPID INCREASE
IN POPULATION:
TIME FOR SERIOUS
CONCERN
"T he population issue is an example of where "Overpopulation is the cause of environmental misfortune,
the world has lost its way and is not con- including species extinction, polluted biosphere, toxified
centrating on the big economic, environ- oceans, climate destabilization, melting polar caps, melt-
mental or social issues. We are preoccu- ing glaciers, dead zones, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, oil
pied with global warming and the supposed imminent de- spills, 80,000 chemicals injected into the land, water and
mise of the Great Barrier Reef even though the science on air , relentless litter, tree-cutting, advancing desertification,
these is far from conclusive. At the same time we ignore 18 million human starving to death annually and quality of
the obvious and definite environmental problems posed by life swirling the drain. On the political front, wars for wa-
population growth: unarguably the easiest and cheapest ter, oil and resources are escalating."
problem to solve yet underpinning all our environmental
problems." "Pessimists have believed that humanity is doomed due to
overpopulation and overconsumption while optimists have
About the author argued that technological innovation will improve standards
of living and that population growth is at most a minor is-
Dr. Ashish Barua sue."
Economist, BA,LLB,MA, MBA, PhD(Eco),D.Litt(Eco) "For example, if an asteroid was on a path taking it too
Former Professor /Director IIRM Faculty NLU,Jodhpur close to the earth, we would make every attempt possible
Association IRDA Publication to "nudge" the asteroid out of its collision orbit. But that
Developed : New Concept of Population
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