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Region fueled India’s population boom. Now it’s in danger
- SpacePortKnight 3y agoI really like how the post has been aided with the colourful illustrations. Not many people know this but India has the most arable land in the world despite being a smaller country than Canada, Russia, China, USA, Brazil [1]. India has even more arable land than entirety of EU. [2] While the article only briefly touches about the potential danger of climate change, I think its even more serious. Climate change combined with poor education, low blue collar jobs and poor healthcare infrastructure, the Northern India is setting itself up for perpetual poverty when compared to South India [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use_statistics_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use_statistics_by_country [2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Farms_and_farmland_in_the_European_Union_-_statistics https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_states_and_union_territories_by_GDP_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_states_and_unio...