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  Population Growth and its Impact on Environment Reading Population growth has direct impact on the environment. An Increase in population means an increase in consuming more resources and producing vast quantity of waste materials. Presently seven billion and six million people live in this world. It is estimated that world's population will reach 9.2 billion by 2050. The impact of so many people on our environment will be consumption of resources like land, food, water, fossils fuel and production of waste materials like garbage, greenhouse gases and water and air pollutants. Experts in the field of population and environment worry that this unchecked population growth may result in environmental catastrophe. A quick look at the realities on ground show that the health of our environment has deteriorated because of overpopulation. Increase in population has resulted in heightened demand for fuel, timber, food, clothes and shelter. Consequently more forest have been cleared for r...

 Pre-reading Reading Once there lived at the foot of a mountain a poor farmer and his aged, widow mother. They owned a bit of land that supplied them with food. They both led a happy, peaceful and humble life. Shinano, the town where they lived, was governed by a despotic leader who though a warrior, had a great and cowardly shrinking from anything suggestive of failing health and strength. This caused him to send out a cruel proclamation. The entire province was given strict orders to immediately put to death all the aged people. The days were barbarous, and the act of abandoning old people to die in isolation was not strange. The poor farmer had immense love and reverence for his aged mother and the order filled his heart with sorrow. No one could even think to refuse to obey the mandate of the governor. With many a deep and hopeless sighs, the youth prepared for the kindest mode, he could kill his mother with. At twilight, when his day's work ended, he took a quantity of unwhite...