The rapidly increasing population
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Vijay Garg
India became the world's most populous country this year, overtaking China. Not surprisingly, India's population growth is posing significant challenges to its environmental sustainability, resource management and social development. The increasing population of cities without foresight or proper planning leads to land degradation, water scarcity, air pollution, waste management and great loss to biodiversity. Population growth, urbanization and environment are interrelated. effective Or sound urban planning is one that takes into account the social fabric and accommodates the needs of the growing population while minimizing its impact on the environment. This is the need of the hour. In today's times, when large population growth can cause environmental stress, it is important to consider the broader context of this problem. For example, the per capita resource consumption and carbon footprint of developed countries is much higher than that of India. India should already learn the virtue of low consumption, so that it does not consume indiscriminately like developed countries.c can be avoided. With its increasing population, India should not proceed on the path of excessive exploitation of resources. For a true and sustainable future in the world, the architecture of cities will have to adopt a two-pronged approach. (To be contd)
India became the world's most populous country this year, overtaking China. Not surprisingly, India's population growth is posing significant challenges to its environmental sustainability, resource management and social development. The increasing population of cities without foresight or proper planning leads to land degradation, water scarcity, air pollution, waste management and great loss to biodiversity. Population growth, urbanization and environment are interrelated. effective Or sound urban planning is one that takes into account the social fabric and accommodates the needs of the growing population while minimizing its impact on the environment. This is the need of the hour. In today's times, when large population growth can cause environmental stress, it is important to consider the broader context of this problem. For example, the per capita resource consumption and carbon footprint of developed countries is much higher than that of India. India should already learn the virtue of low consumption, so that it does not consume indiscriminately like developed countries.c can be avoided. With its increasing population, India should not proceed on the path of excessive exploitation of resources. For a true and sustainable future in the world, the architecture of cities will have to adopt a two-pronged approach. (To be contd)