POPULATION CONTROL

Population control means to control or reduce birth rate of population of any particular place, country or the whole world. To control birth rate is the demand of time on which we have to think deeply.

                              Of the total surface area of the earth, only 29% is land and rest 71% is occupied by water. All the resources on the earth are quite limited including land, minerals, forests as well as water. Only 3% of the total water on this earth is non-salty and all of these are not available to human being for utilization. Most of which exist in the form of ice in poles and glacier. Water is one of the most crucial resources to human being. It is well said that “Water is Life”. A person can live for a week or more without food but can’t live without water. Even if we study about our body cells then we will find that 60-90% of the cell constitute of water. Our body cells, tissues and organs can’t perform normally without intake of water. Absorption of digested food in the small intestine is fully depends on the intake of water. Oxygen is the most vital resource for us as we can’t live for a minute without it but we never think of its source. Forests are decreasing worldwide at a high rate. The most dramatic examples of forest and habitat loss comes from tropical rain forests. Once covered 14% of the earth’s total land surface, these rain forests now cover only 6%. By the time we finish reading this, more than 1000 hectares of rain forests would have been lost. Amazon rain forest is so huge that it is called ‘The Lung of the mother Earth’. It is being cut and cleared to cultivate soyabeans or to convert into grassland for raising beef cattle. This amazon produces 20% of the total oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere and it is being destroyed by humans to meet their hungry because of over population. In India, the rate of birth as well as deforestation is so high that it is alarming us for a dangerous natural calamity in near future if not controlled in time. Forests covering of India was 30% of the total land area of the country in the beginning of 20^th century but now it is reduced to only 19.4%. Deforestation, air pollution, land pollution, water pollution and sound pollution are some of the consequences of over population which in turn causing hazardous problems like green house effect and some natural hazards like earthquake, floods, drought, landslides as well as many diseases that take lives of thousands every year. People blame God for their sufferings but never think of their own day to day activities. We are solely responsible for our own sufferings.

                              There are so many methods like natural, barrier, chemical, oral, surgical etc. by which we can control birth rate but it is needed to educate people about them and consequences of over population. Population growth can only be controlled by proper education, enforcement of strict law on marriageable age and family planning. Government as well as public should concentrate more on implementation of the above said measures.