What India is Doing to Help/hurt the Environment

By Anonymous -

By Nathan Shan

Over the last decade, India’s strong growth has increased employment opportunities and allowed millions to emerge from poverty.
India’s remarkable growth record, however, has been countered by a bad environment and scarcity of natural resources. Environmental risks are driven by both prosperity and poverty.
In a recent survey of 178 countries whose environments were surveyed, India ranked 155th overall and almost last in air pollution exposure. The survey also concluded that India's environmental quality is far below all other countries that are quickly economizing [China (118), Brazil (77), Russia (73), and South Africa (72)]. Also, according to another recent WHO survey, 13 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are in India. Poverty is a cause and a consequence - the bad environment means less crops are produced, so poor people have to overuse the land and destroy trees.
Here's a flaw in their logic: the bad environment causes India to use 80 billion American dollars worth of money - over 5.7% of its income per year! As a result, the bigger economy is not giving them as much money as it should, and the environment is getting worse! I think this needs to change.
Growth – so essential for development – have to come at the price of worsened air quality and other environmental impacts? Like China, the Indian government says yes, and it is doing very little to help make the environment better. But, like China, do India's citizens try to help the environment? The answer is no. Because of India's high poverty levels, most inhabitants are more focused on feeding their family than saving the environment. The result is that India has the highest amount of pollution in the world.                                          

 (India is purple) 
source: http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2014/03/06/
green-growth-overcoming-india-environment-challenges-promote-development

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Air Pollution (grade levels 4-8)

By Anonymous -
Air Pollution Next post in series Samuel Desai Many environmental activists, unlike me, like to say that pollution is an important issue. I prefer to categorize them into three different topics. Air Pollution, Water Pollution, Noise Pollution, and Light Pollution. The other types of pollution are for another week but don't worry, you will hear about them soon. You may believe that Carbon Dioxide (CO2) it the only pollutant, but it isn't. There are others. One type is methane gas, emitted by livestock and swamps. Another CFC's or chlorofluorocarbons which were used in refrigerators, hairspray, and many other things. But they were banned internationally in 2010 because of its deteriorating effect on the ozone layer. Personally, I think that the pollutant which harms us the most is sulfur dioxide. Sulfur Dioxide is a component in smog, but also reflects sunlight out into space, causing a global cooling. This may seem good, but sulfur dioxide is directly linked
Read more

MODEL X!!!!

By Anonymous -
Image
Recently, the Tesla model X came out, and by recently, I mean yesterday! Elon Musk said this stuff on  twitter . With a whopping price of 130,000 and more it is very costly, but, the  car is great. The Tesla model X is a family friendly,  and and safe car. It seats 7, with 2 fold-able seats in the third row. The signature series, includes a 90 kWh battery pack, autopilot and self driving functions, and third  row seats. for 10,000 more dollars, ludicrous mode will be added to the X, making it go from 0-60 in  3.2   seconds!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, for 1,000 more dollars, there is the subzero weather package, including heated steering wheel, seat heaters, heated washer fluid, and wiper defrosters. Also, for 750 more dollars, the car will be able to heave 5000 lbs. The falcon wing doors that the X has have sensors to keep them from slamming into walls, so it will stop at a certain point. I used Business Insider, and you can read the article  here. Check out Tesla's page while you'r
Read more

Weekly endangered species report

By Anonymous -
Image
On No! Bees Are Endangered Because of Habitat Alteration ! By: Kaden Chien The IUCN has recently discovered a new Species of Bees called Bombus Fraternus. The Bombus Fraternus is a North American bee that is Endangered because of Habitat Alteration. This may be due to human activity such as Cutting down Trees or pollution. This species may go extinct in 80-90 years if this activity keeps up. Efforts to help with this species is going up. But what is strange is that where there are larger efforts, the population in those states are decreasing more than other states! The studies show that the c urrent range size relative to historic range: 71.38% and the  Persistence in current range relative to historic occupancy: 43.33% also, the c urrent relative abundance relative to historic values: 14.40% and lastly, the a verage decline: 56.96%.  If you want an image of a Bombus Fraternus you will see one down there: Now you will find the scientific classification of the Bombus Frat
Read more