Unbridled Population Rise-Great Problem "Pressures resulting from unrestrained population growth put demands on the natural world that can overwhelm any efforts to achieve a sustainable future. If we are to halt the destruction of our environment, we must accept limits to that growth." -World Scientists' Warning to Humanity, signed by 1600 senior scientists from 70 countries, including 102 Nobel Prize laureates The population of a country has direct link to the economy and level of standard of living of the inhabitants of that country. When the numbers increase, there increase the needs of those numbers too. The state, in the absence of laws to limit the population is under an obligation to provide the basic amenities of life: food, shelter, clothing, education, medical care, drinking water, transport, electricity, housing, and so on. . The failure of providing above amenities results in to poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and a poor standard of living in general. And to crime, drugs, law and order in consequence. The population must have its limits and must ultimately reach a balance with their environments. In a country like India the balance between resources, production of amenities and demand is highly delicate and unfair. There is dearth of necessities of a decent living. There is no denying the fact that a small family is a happy family. In these days of higher cost of living, the grooming, nourishment, good education, happy living, to a large extent, is a virtue of small families only. Sprawl is inevitable. When Homo Sapiens encroach upon living space of other living species, the natural repercussion for other living beings is to seek ingress into cities and towns. Instances are not lacking when Leopards, Cheetahs and recently a python entered human tenements, perhaps to protest against the laws of nature and their fundamental rights. “Slower population growth is part of a'virtuous circle' that can help promote equality. Where family planning is available, where couples are confident their children will survive, where girls go to school, where young women and men have economic opportunity, couples will have healthier and smaller families – and the gaps that divide men and women, rich and poor, will diminish.” – Laurie Mazur Just take a deep breath and give attention the following statement of a mother in Congo; “Today, the big children will eat, Cynthia, 15, and Guellor, 13. Tomorrow, it will be the turn of the little ones, Bénédicte, Josiane and Manassé, 3, 6, and 9. Of course, the small ones will fuss. “Yes, sure, they ask for food, but we don’t have any,” said their mother, Ghislaine Berbok, a police officer who earns$50 a month. There will have been a little bread for them at breakfast, but nothing more.”

It is high time the governments of the world pay full attention to this colossal problem.