India urgently needs laws to check the rise in the human population that has emerged as a sort of unmitigated disaster. The rapid rise in population has led to the division of farmland into sub-optimal plots which are unviable. It has led to large scale migration of people from rural areas to cities in search of jobs and livelihood. These migrants often live in slums and face numerous hardships in the cities
The continuous rise in population has also led to the expansion of our cities and villages through the destruction of forests for developing new human settlements. It has often put humans in conflict with other animals and the entire ecosystem gets endangered. The large scale deforestation has led to rapid extinction of several species over the last several decades.
The massive population also puts pressure on natural resources such as water, air, mineral resources, wood etc. The rate at which we have been consuming several resources like coal and crude oil would leave them completely exhausted over the next few decades. Moreover, the rising pollution in our natural environment is also due to the fact that we have been unable to manage our population growth and it has put the lives of several innocent people at risk.
