Earth: The countdown has began!

Census is being taken once in 10 years in our country(India). After prolonged political arguments over the methodology of classifying the people based on caste, the Census has been finally taken. But what I find amusing is that in between this Census periods, I wonder if any economists in our country or for that matter in the world have ever bothered to check the growth of population and if there is adequate food to feed the masses.

In the olden days, a King will be ruling a province and with the help of his Ministers and Loyal Subjects, he will be able to find out the activities of his subjects as well as the availability of food because the distance between his  subjects and himself is very less.

Nowadays, the concept of Ruler is gone and loyalty is also gone. Another important thing to be noted is that, in the olden days, population used to be very less and people lived close to nature. This is an era of population explosion, with increasing needs and means couldn't even meet the ends. As a result, scarcity of food has arisen, even though, food revolution has taken place and mechanized food cultivation is taken as a remedial measure to meet many hungry mouths. Still it does not work out in the current scenario.

Poverty lines are being defined by the Government as well the United Nations and what is the plight of those Below the Poverty Line?

What has caused this havoc in this beautiful place called earth and what are the consequences of it?

Causes:

• Population explosion
• Corrupt Government
• Increase in poverty
• Jealousy admist people to amass wealth
• Destruction of nature for natural resources

Consequences:

• Malnourished people/obese people leading to poor quality of life
• Medical facilities being a necessity
• Natural disasters and calamities
• Wars and other man made calamities
• Wiping off, of excess/unprivileged population

The above said consequences are similar to that of Malthusian Theory of Population. Malthusian theory was criticized that it is a fallacy which would never happen. 

Once India used to be a country with buffer stock with agricultural surplus. Considering the above cause - effect happenings, and after occurring of many events like tsunamis and terrorist attacks and bomb blasts, which are both natural and man made, the man has turned the nature as well as his fellow men upon himself. Now, the future of many countries are still a big question mark.....