Impact and Solutions along with Agricultural growth

Environmental health and its preservation have become a hot topic of discussion in India. While India has paid extreme attention to its economic growth and industrialisation, it has lost its healthy environment. Agricultural Growth and deforestation have led to air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, and infant mortality rates to rise. 

Though India has been trying hard to overcome these issues and improve its environmental conditions over the past years, it can succeed only a bit. The conditions more or less remain the same.

Causes of Environmental Loss and their Impacts

Deforestation

One of the significant causes of the decline in environmental conditions in India is deforestation. Cutting down trees to build houses and industries has led to soil degradation and a lower air quality index. Other factors which contributed to deforestation were – Agricultural growth, shifting cultivation, overgrazing, mining and a few more.

Impact of Deforestation: Deforestation has led to reduced rainfall in India, which indirectly affects food cultivation. It has affected the lives of animals and birds and the people who resided in forests. Apart from these problems, deforestation has led to increased landslides and floods.

GHG Emissions

When fossil fuels are burnt, greenhouse gases are emitted. These greenhouse gases contribute to climate change. It increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, leading to a rise in temperature. GHG emissions result due to human activities and industries that burn fossil fuels.
Impact: greenhouse gases emitted, damage our air and make it impure. This impure air, when inhaled, causes various diseases like Asthma, mumps, and Tuberculosis and causes severe damage to the lungs.

Industrialisation

The industrialisation has been done to improve the economic conditions of India as well as provide employment to the people of the country. Though the step has been done to meet the needs of the people and their work requirements, it has led to immense damage to our environment.
Impact: Industrialisation has led to a very negative effect on the environment. Waste from industries is disposed of in water, leading to water pollution, and smoke from chimneys leads to air pollution. The development of sectors degrades the soil. Thus industrialisation through fundamentals causes the most damage to the environment. The waste in transit pollutes the water of other countries as well.

Overpopulation

The population of India is increasing at a tremendously faster rate and has reached to be one of the most highly populated countries in the world. Overpopulation leads to an increase in demand for necessities, which damages the environment.
Impact: Overpopulation needs more places to live, more land to increase Agricultural growth, more food to live and more jobs to earn and grow. All these factors damage our environment. Overpopulation means more consumption of available resources and, in turn, more demand for the resources, which leads to cutting down of trees, and pollution of air, land and soil.

Solutions to Environmental Problems:

• Afforestation- more and more trees should be planted to improve environmental conditions and purify the air. The Impure air in transit pollutes other parts of the world.
• Government regulations- all the laws designed and outlined by the government should be followed to safeguard our environment.
• Use recyclable materials- avoid plastic and use recycled materials not to harm the environment. Plastic is non-biodegradable material and harms the environment. 
• Impose fines for illegal dumping so that dumping is done correctly and causes less harm to our surroundings.
• Use separate dustbins for dumping waste that is biodegradable and non-biodegradable
• It is essential that people are educated about the harms that are being caused to our environment and how to safeguard our environment so that the coming youth can control the damage being caused to the environment.

Conclusion

The economic growth and urbanisation have led to a decline in Environment in India. This affects the entire population of the country and the people across the globe. This is made worse by the population of India, which is rapidly increasing. Though various laws are made for securing the environment, they are hardly followed.

These laws cover almost all the environmental concerns and can bring a tremendous improvement in our degrading environment. India needs to adopt and follow specific sustainable steps that can protect our environment and not hinder economic growth. India strictly needs to protect its environment from further damage.