People and Environment

The environmental destruction that has followed is making the lives of people humanly impossible, particularly of women who have to fetch daily household needs from the immediate environment. To survive, the poor often have no alternative but to turn upon the very environment with which they lived in full harmony in the immediate past. The key question for expert and lay person is: can lands support such a large and growing population? This is where the ‘carrying capacity’ comes in. It is the number of people or animals that an area of land can support on a sustainable basis. Population growth has adverse impact on environment due to excessive encroachment on nature. Various crucial issues pertaining to topic are described in this book.