It is actually 30% Sush. The biggest thing a person can do is go to one child only at a later age, then compost several ways, live on solar/wind power reduce consumption re-use tires for houses, and recycle purified metal, paper, and plastic, and grow much of your own food. I do all that and live in the USA, do you do all that in the extreme overpopulation of India? Your people have already got the inbred through time, NEGATIVE ecological trait of crowd tolerance which will crash your country soon. You are right, I am an expert, and have been for 40 years, and along the way, on a lot more than ecology and population dynamics. There was an eco-footprint crude survey on this board, and if everyone was like me, we would need just one planet. The eco-footprint of Indians would have to be less than 1/3 mine because there are over 3 times as many of you. You couldn't pay me enough to even visit the stench, polluted drinking water, and crowds of your country. The movie(and book by Michael Tobias and Oregon Public Television, 1994) "WWIII: Overpopulation and the Biosphere showed India depleting the rest of its soil, groundwater, and forests, by 2010. The crude survey did not show, or have, the impact of having only one child versus more. More hurts the biosphere, while one helps, in general. It is true that massive industrialization and agriculture, especially without pollution restraints, is deadly to the population of the country like China, and the world who get the settling mercury everywhere. Mercury and other pollution can destroy the mind and body in a variety of ways. So can over-crowding induce anxiety, hostility, and depression, to the point of the drugs to combat the symptoms being significant pollutants, along with birth control hormones to stem overpopulation even causing sex changes in fish in rivers downstream from big cities. The dead zones off of estuaries has risen sharply in number and size. The industrialization of India is not helping. Total pollution from China is far greater than that from the USA, who is slightly ahead of Europe. A big part of total pollution is a function of population, and so is groundwater, forest, and soil depletion. You end up either getting polluted to death or run out of water, or food, or get a disease from polluted water and low immunity from malnutrition.
_________________ "With every decision, think seven generations ahead of the consequences of your actions" Ute rule of life. “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”― Chief Seattle “Those Who Have the Privilege to Know Have the Duty to Act”…Albert Einstein
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