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Overpopulation is always relative. It means that the population at hand exceeds the amount that existing systems can cope with. You can argue that Indian societ
by icegreentea2 7y ago
Overpopulation is always relative. It means that the population at hand exceeds the amount that existing systems can cope with. You can argue that Indian society is badly organized and that their current population levels and densities could be sustained with better societal systems, but that doesn't quite capture how difficult it is to fix societal systems.
- whatshisface 7y agoWhat's easier, improving infrastructure or lowering the population?
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- icegreentea2 7y agoI get your point - it's obviously easier to solve the problem (at least if you want to act ethically) by improving infrastructure. But that also has the risk of trivializing the problem. Improve infrastructure is hard, especially in a compromised system.
- BurningFrog 7y agoGenocide (which I assume is the "unethical" option) is also hard, and tends to destroy infrastructure as well... I do agree that improving governance is much, much easier said than done. And to be fair, India has had substantial progress.
- BurningFrog 7y ago> It means that the population at hand exceeds the amount that existing systems can cope with I think this is just a different phrasing of "Indian society is badly organized". Which is a different way of saying I think we mostly agree.