In the making of the nation
(Population, environment, and
anarchy are inter-related)
Effects on global warming:
Higher the population greater the demand for
shelter, clothing, household gadgets and facilities for bodily needs, education
system, municipal services, medical health facilities and transportation etc..
All this means more industrialization, more smoke-belching industries and more power
generating stations, resulting in more burning of fossil fuels, and emission of
yet more greenhouse gases. Fossil burning is more prominent in societies that
are lesser developed (India is one) and still practice the use of fossil fuel
(oil, gas & coal) in abundance for power generation. The global directive
is to switch-over to non conventional (non-renewable) energy sources as fast as
possible, mainly to Hydro-electric and Solar power generation (wind has limited
scope), Chapter 8.8 of the book. This means shrinking of usable lands, denudation of
forests, more global warming and so forth, gradually trapping us into a vicious
circle. It is therefore imperative that the entire world understands the
catastrophes that may emerge due to swarming population and exercises strict
population control to negate its adverse effects. Say, from the present level of the world population of over
700 crore (2011) to 350–400 crore in about a hundred years, Chapter 8.4.
UN is required to play a very vital role
cautioning the world communities to contain their population to a safe limit.
According to me, containing the global population
can be a tangible means to contain the global warming and delay submergence of
low-lying islands. A determined drop in population may quite possibly contain
the rise in sea levels; even halt global warming in the course of time.
My emphasis on population control, therefore, is
not merely socioeconomic. Global warming is a great threat to humanity. Thousands of islands in the next couple of
decades may shrink and vanish into the seas due to this. It calls for human
empathy and his commensurate efforts and commitment to protect the present and
the posterity from this man made menace. Man is quite capable of circumventing
such predicaments. O’ kindly light, let the wisdom prevail!
Unabated and uncontrolled
swarming population and scanty job opportunities are compounding the already
grim socio-economic situation in many societies.
Unless we remove our blindfolds and see
the truth, the day is not far when we shall have no place to live and roads to
commute. One may also wonder for how long our mother earth shall be able to
feed its untrammeled swarming mouths? All this demands wisdom and urgent
actions to tackle the insurmountable predicament. Chapter 8.4 of my book is an
attempt to provide tangible solutions to a seeming predicament.
Recession
and disgruntled societies is a natural phenomenon of unabated rise in the
population and limitations of the mother earth in satisfying their ever growing
needs and aspirations. Many of the evils afflicting the world communities are
largely a culmination of rapidly rising population and paucity of our means leading
to frustration and eruption of protests, agitations and disturbances. We have
witnessed these occurrences with concern in various parts of the world during
2011-15. It is therefore imperative that the whole world takes a pause and gives
this phenomenon a serious thought to practice strict population control as
discussed in Chapter 8.4.
K C Agrawal
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