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> South Korea and Taiwan have higher population density than India ... This is disingenuous. Australia has an astonishingly low population density (3.1 people
by Jedd 7y ago
> South Korea and Taiwan have higher population density than India ...
This is disingenuous.
Australia has an astonishingly low population density (3.1 people / square kilometre) however it has about the same volume of arable land as France and most of that land is poorer (soil, nutrient) quality, and has a lot lower rainfall and is prone to more severe weather events ... etc.
Assessing or comparing population density based purely on people / sq km is wildly misleading. Rather, it's a matter of carrying capacity of the land, which is what I presume GP was referring to.
- coldtea 7y agoWe're talking about Delhi here, not all of India.
- Jedd 7y ago> We're talking about Delhi here, not all of India. Parent was comparing country population densities. GP was asserting whole of India is overpopulated, while also trying to assert that 'this issue only affects Delhi'. Clearly the 'only affects Delhi' isn't pollution related -- as most large cities in India are literally breathtakingly polluted. So I assume GP was asserting that the burnoff issue was a purely Delhi (or surrounds) related issue ... though even that seems unlikely given the water management & agricultural practices throughout the country.
- paulsutter 7y agoIndia is 52% arable land, Japan is 11%, South Korea is 22%. So Japan and South Korea have far less arable land per person.
- puranjay 7y agoIndia has the highest proportion of arable land in the world. Lack of land isn't India's problem. We've long had the resources to house and feed our population, which, ironically, is the reason why we have so much population in the first place.