India Is Caught in a Climate Change Quandary

ScrAPES#11: India Is Caught in a Climate Change Quandary

by Eduardo Porter

November 10, 2015

 India has 30% of the world's poorest. Majority of them, approximately 304 million people do not have electricity. While 92 million people do not have fresh drinking water. India will encounter a severe monsoon between August and September, with about 70% of India's rainfall. While also having to pay more for the consequences of the emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases from richer and developed countries. The United Nations believed that India's population would increasingly maximize to 1.5 billion by 2030, much more than China.   Majority of countries in the world are deciding to decrease greenhouse gases but there are also some who oppose.

This is interesting to me is one of the most populated country in the world with over 1.25 billion people, also being such a little country (compared to China). I am not also surprised that majority of Indians do not have electricity nor fresh drinking water because it is a third world country. What interests me is that India's population will assumingly increase so much that it will be much more than China's population. 



This relates to the environment because first the living style of the approximately 80-90% of the Indian's in India are very poor; do not have electricity, fresh water, money, or even a job. With very poor lifestyle people would most likely die from starvation or give up, which means the Crude Death Rate (CDR) will increase and it will be unbalance. Secondly, India's population is a problem because it also effects the overall human population. We cannot afford to have tons and tons of people living in earth when earth can only hold a certain capacity. As our population increase the more we are basically killing our planet. People think it's a joke but it really is not. 


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• India Is Caught in a Climate Change Quandary