Proliferation of Population and Pollutants-Pathway for a Grave Future: Comparison of Past and Present Indian Scenario – A Review

Abstract:

The environment we live in is very fragile and has a delicate balance. In the current era, the human kind is consuming the natural resources at a higher rate than it can produce it and is generating wastes at a higher rate than the environment can remove it. Because of anthropocentric ideology, human race believes in development through destruction. The urge for luxury and sophistication has given an impetus to industrial revolution and technological development. This has lead to exponential consumption of resources of the world. To worsen this scenario, the world has undergone huge population explosion in the 19^th century. This has increased pressure on all available resources. Hence, in order to meet the current demands, people started using unsustainable technologies leading to huge pollution in all sectors. In this paper, the adverse effect of population growth in India on various factors like water pollution, emissions of CO₂ and green house gases are discussed. The data for analysis are based on the statistics of United Nations Population Division, The WorldBank data bank and Central Pollution Control Board of India.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 787)
• Pages: 162-166
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.787.162
• Online since: August 2015
• Authors: S. Shevarjun*, Ponnuraj Radika, Rajaram Senthil
• Keywords: Anthropocentric, Ecocentric, Ecological Succession, Pollutants, Population, Unsustainable

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