Why This Ship Is India's Future

    • kumar.saurav2@timesgroup.com
    • Publish Date: Jul 10 2017 10:51AM
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    • Updated Date: Jul 10 2017 10:58AM
Why This Ship Is India's Future

Because when a ship is overloaded with passengers, it’s bound to go down. Similarly if India (and the world) doesn’t control its population, the entire ecosystem that supports life will soon collapse, and there will be no rebound from there. Taking it as a cue Kumar Saurav weaves a story around the menace of overpopulation.

Why India is overpopulated
  • Falling mortality rate: Simply put, the mortality rate is deaths per 1,000 individuals per year. In the 1960s, India’s mortality rate was 248, which means that for every 1,000 infants born, 248 people died. However, with better medical facilities and an improved lifestyle, it has now come down to the 40s. While it’s a good thing that a lesser number of people are dying early and the quality of life has improved in the country, falling mortality rate inversely affects the growth rate of population, which is exactly the case with India. 
  • Improved medical facilities: Our medical infrastructure may not be at par with other countries, but Indians now have faster and easier access to well-experienced doctors and modern hospitals than they had earlier. This has increased the birth-death gap.      
  • Family planning, what’s that: We lack behind on this front. Blame it on the culture, beliefs or ignorance, Indians subscribe to ‘more hands mean more income’ ideology. This too has contributed to the insane  growth rate. In fact, everything such as early marriage has been practiced to get more kids at an early age. Get the picture?

Overpopulation leads to...

  • Exploitation of Natural Resources: To sustain more life, you require more food and for that you need more farmland; you have to encroach on forests to build cities; you dig deeper to extract water, fuel and minerals. Now, you don’t have to be an Einstein to understand that the supply of all these resources is limited and some day the planet will run out of all these. 
  • Environmental abuse: Water, land, sky – what have humans not ruined to sustain life? More humans means more development which requires more emissions, increased encroachment on nature (land, water and air) and wrecked bio-diversity.  
  • Hunger, poverty, conflict: If today, four people are sharing a bowl of rice, tomorrow eight will, and day after 16, and then a day will come when everyone will be so hungry because they didn’t get enough rice to eat that they will fight amongst themselves to eat the entire bowl by themselves. Conflicts over water are already a reality.  
  • Rise in Unemployment: We already have millions of people with no work. How will we create jobs for the ones who are coming in the times to come?

The control mechanism

  • Increased awareness: Awareness is the only wand that can do the trick, hence we need to make people aware about the right age for marriage, benefits of a smaller family and other family control measures. Even education will help control population because it’s easier for educated people to understand the economics of household size. For example, more hands doesn’t necessarily lead to more income, it certainly leads to more mouths to feed. 
  • Tax Benefits: Can you trick people into having lesser kids? Yes you can, a lot of countries offer tax exemptions to people with less kids.  
  • Value women as an earning member:  Sounds bitter (and sad) but it’s true that women are still valued more for their reproductive capabilities than for their earning ones. However, if we can reverse this mentality, then women can focus more on their career and less on being the bearer of family’s future generations.  
 
 

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Comments

Hemalatha.G Sethu Bhaskara Matriculation Higher Secondary Scho

Over population is dangerous. It severly causes ill to living beings. God believed man could take care of Earth well, but increase on the rate of humans causes damage to the earth.

Harikrishnan S S sree saraswathi vidyalayam, Ooruttambalam, Trivand

absolutely

Abishai Marlapati sri vignana bharathi high school

yes that is real thats what happen in our world

Himanshi Dhawan Saffron Public School

I feel that India''s population is a boon as well as a bane. What can''t a country achieve with the power of Youngistaan or with the power of 800 million youth equivalent to the combined population of Russia, Indonesia and Pakistan? For the Indian youth, sky is the limit! But if one side is promising, then the other side is bleak.

Himanshi Dhawan Saffron Public School

With the emergence of so much talent, the country lacks adequate resources. Be it jobs, education or health facilities today the people are struggling hard to fend for themselves.

Souparnika Jayadeep Jayapal Harmony International School , Kharghar

Overpopulation is really making the Earth become a smaller place to live. It is becoming a threat to all living beings

Koushtubh Roy Lakshmipat Singhania Academy

Exactly!Over population is really dangerous it takes many innocent lives and the chart has gone out of charts.

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