write a debate on population Seven Billion and counting... can India feed it's people
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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.
I appeal the Government and the people to join hands to tackle the menace of uncontrolled population explosion before it is too late!
This is perhaps the biggest question we face, not simply as a nation but also as part of the global community.
Since the industrial revolution, the population of the world has exploded and by mid-century can reach as high as 9 billion.
In such a world can be sustain our food sources and feed everyone?
We already know that millions of people around the world are already malnourished. In India, we have 100s of millions of people who are not able to eat enough food on a daily basis, hampering their health and life prospects.
India, with a population of 1.3 billion must understand that we cannot simply go on increasing our population, and underfed people might one day become the straw that breaks the camel's back.
With so much inequality in the country and the government spending so less on infrastructure, there is very little hope.
Last year, Indian government spent $ 30 billion on importing weapons. $30 billion can easily be invested on canal and irrigation projects, especially in various states experiencing drought conditions where hundreds of in-debt farmers have resorted to suicides.
We as a nation are failing to provide adequate food to everyone and the sooner the government realizes this, the better it will be.
The government needs to set it's priorities right, otherwise, hundreds of millions of people who feel left out can resort to crime and other things