Mission Sustainability: Population VS Planet — The talk with Pradip Burman

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• A discussion with Pradip Burman, Chairman of
  Mobius Foundation about the objectives benefits
  of the project 'Aakar', established by Mobius
  Foundation, which runs several outreach
  programmes to counsel women and couples planning
  to start families. The foundation also organizes
  World Environment School, Gyan Anant Vidyalaya,
  etc. to create awareness about sustainable
  population.

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• On average, 83 million people are added to the
  world population every year. As per the latest
  estimates by the UN, we will have a global
  population of 9 billion by 2030.
• However, we only have one planet to live on-
  Earth and it has finite resources to sustain
  human needs. If the human population keeps
  growing at the current rate, our planet will not
  be able to keep up.

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• Problem!
• Thats what prompted Pradip Burman to launch
  this year-long initiative Mission
  Sustainability Population VS Planet in
  partnership with WION.
• Through this initiative we aim to aware, educate
  and empower the current generation with solid
  facts and teach them the way for stabilizing the
  population for a better future. The population is
  directly linked to climate change, global
  warming, ecological disruption and biodiversity
  loss. And our planet is reeling under the burden
  of population explosion and the multiplying needs
  of humans. And there is nothing inexplicable
  about it.
• Today, you and I are witnesses to the rising
  housing crisis, deepening poverty, growing
  unemployment, and declining health in our country
  due to unsustainable overpopulation. Among these
  environmental and economic crises, the two most
  apparent challenges that we face today are air
  pollution and climate change.
• Recently, some of the prominent metro cities in
  India were rated as the most polluted cities in
  the world. This shows the quality of the air we
  breathe today. As for climate change, in the past
  few years, we have seen rising temperatures in
  India and shorter winter seasons. That is a sign
  of climate change and global warming that we
  face.
• The connection between air pollution, climate
  change and population, is simple. More population
  leads to more vehicles, more pollution and higher
  climate temperatures.

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• But how do we save our planet from the impending
  disaster?
• I feel, education is the key to saving our
  planet. By inculcating environmental awareness as
  part of school education and empowering the youth
  to be climate warriors, we can make future
  generations a part of the Save the Planet
  movement.
• Mobius Foundation understands the importance of
  education and instils this as a basis in each of
  its projects. Some of these initiatives include
• Project Aakar It aims to spread awareness and
  promote population stabilization methods
  especially to the rural population of India.
• World Environment School There is a growing need
  to understand the environment and adopt a
  sustainable lifestyle. This school aims to teach
  students just that.
• Gyan Anant Vidyalaya Situated in Atrouli
  village, the school makes quality education
  accessible to the rural area and emphasis on
  educating the youth there about the environment.

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