Write a debate on population seven billion and counting...... can india feed its people
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By Robert Kunzig
Photograph by Randy Olson
One day in Delft in the fall of 1677, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, a cloth merchant who is said to have been the long-haired model for two paintings by Johannes Vermeer—“The Astronomer” and “The Geographer”—abruptly stopped what he was doing with his wife and rushed to his worktable. Cloth was Leeuwenhoek’s business but microscopy his passion. He’d had five children already by his first wife (though four had died in infancy), and fatherhood was not on his mind. “Before six beats of the pulse had intervened,” as he later wrote to the Royal Society of London, Leeuwenhoek was examining his perishable sample through a tiny magnifying glass. Its lens, no bigger than a small raindrop, magnified objects hundreds of times. Leeuwenhoek had made it himself; nobody else had one so powerful. The learned men in London were still trying to verify Leeuwenhoek’s earlier claims that unseen “animalcules” lived by the millions in a single drop of lake water and even in French wine. Now he had something more delicate to report: Human semen contained animalcules too. “Sometimes more than a thousand,” he wrote, “in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand.” Pressing the glass to his eye like a jeweler, Leeuwenhoek watched his own animalcules swim about, lashing their long tails. One imagines sunlight falling through leaded windows on a face lost in contemplation, as in the Vermeers. One feels for his wife.
Population seven billion and counting...... can India feed its people?
Good morning everyone present here. I am going to express my views on ‘Population seven billion and counting...... can India feed its people?’ And I am going to speak against the motion. Of all the problems ailing the entire mankind, population is the most threatening. Sir David Attenborough has very wisely said: “Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, maybe we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment.”
Undoubtedly the exponential growth in the world population has posed serious
threats to mankind. According to the UNICEF estimates an average of 353,000
babies are born each day around the world. Owing to the advancement in
standards of living and better medical facilities, the mortality rate is the
lowest. More number of babies means more demand for food, more urbanization,
more industrialization, more consumption of natural resources, more burning of
fossil fuel which means more emission of green house and toxic gases into the
atmosphere.
India is the second largest populated country in the world. If the population keeps growing at the current threatening rate, soon the natural resources will collapse. The indicators of the collapse have begun blinking. The pollution levels in all the cities have reached threatening levels. Just recently, schools and colleges have to be closed down because of the dangerous pollution level. India can’t afford more uncontrolled population growth!
The planet earth has already reached a critical state. It is like an ailing planet. The environment has already been damaged critically. Global warming, world forests disappearing at alarming rate, and invaluable plants and animals going extinct at unrelenting pace have already jeopardized our beautiful planet. There is one cause at the root of all problems—population explosion. If the population is not controlled immediately, especially in the developing countries, the world is bound to face environmental catastrophe. There may come a day when the natural life-supporting system might fail owing to undue burden of human population on them.