In what way does overpopulation affect India's environment?
Environment
As the human population continues to grow, natural resources, such as fossil fuels, fresh water, arable land, coral reefs and frontier forests, continue to decline. India is one of the biggest producers of food, which is a result of intensive farming. But this has a lot of cons.
Intensive farming is a practice that produces more and cheaper food per acre and per animal. This has helped feeding the continuously growing population, but has grown to become the biggest threat to the global environment through the loss of ecosystem services and global warming. And not to mention, intensive farming kills usefull insects and plants, exhausts the soil it depends on and destroys natural habitats.
As the human population continues to grow, natural resources, such as fossil fuels, fresh water, arable land, coral reefs and frontier forests, continue to decline. India is one of the biggest producers of food, which is a result of intensive farming. But this has a lot of cons.
Intensive farming is a practice that produces more and cheaper food per acre and per animal. This has helped feeding the continuously growing population, but has grown to become the biggest threat to the global environment through the loss of ecosystem services and global warming. And not to mention, intensive farming kills usefull insects and plants, exhausts the soil it depends on and destroys natural habitats.