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[Lamba Lavlesh <LLamba@siemens-hearing.com>]

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        Read These Lines - How world sees us. concentration of
impoverrished
citizens on Earth,
        and reading these lines gave me a clue if we don't posses Nukes
World was ready to eleminate these impoverished citizens.

        Read This :-

        In some ways, the report says, India is now paying the price for

developing nuclear weapons.  "As a result, it now has a nuclear arsenal
capable of protecting the largest concentration of impoverished citizens
on
Earth."



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sanjeev Sabhlok [SMTP:sanjeev@sabhlokcity.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 9:38 PM
> To:   debate@indiapolicy.org
> Subject:
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> From: Dr. Sanjeev Sabhlok <sanjeev@sabhlokcity.com>
> To: debate@indiapolicy.org
> Subject:  one billionth child of India
>
> I'm sure everyone has read this. Also found in my mailbox.
>
>
>       Sender: "Jagdeep Perhar"
>
>       This is based on the report  that India has already given birth
to 1
> billionth child and based on present projections, India looks set to
> overtake China by 2045.
>
>       A report by the Worldwatch Institute, based in Washington DC,
says
> the birth of the billionth
>       Indian "is not a cause for celebration".
>
>       It says half of India's adults are illiterate,
>       more than half of its children are undernourished, and
>       a third of its people live below the poverty line.
>
>       Barely keeping pace
>
>       In the last 50 years India has tripled its grain harvest, with
new
> high-yielding crops and a tripling of the irrigated area.
>
>       Even so, the report says, food production has barely kept up
with
> population.
>
>       Now the rise in grainland productivity is slowing, as it is in
many
> other countries. And the  amount of land available to each Indian is
> shrinking.
>
>       In 1960 there was an average of 0.21 hectares of grainland for
every
> citizen.
>       That has fallen to 0.1 ha today, and by 2050 is likely to have
> fallen  further, to 0.07 ha.
>
>       Food production is also threatened by falling water tables.
>
>       The International Water Management Institute estimates that
India is
> using its underground water reserves twice as fast as they are being
> replaced.
>
>       Unable to respond
>
>       That is serious in a country where irrigated land produces 55%
of
> the grain harvest, and where
>       most irrigation water comes from underground.
>
>       The Worldwatch Institute says the Indian Government,
"overwhelmed
> by sheer numbers, is suffering from democratic fatigue", and is
unable  to
> respond properly to new crises.
>
>        And it believes that means the worsening environmental problems
are
> likely to have a grim outcome.
>
>        "If this decrease in water supplies causes food production to
drop,
> death rates are likely to increase."
>
>       In some ways, the report says, India is now paying the price for

> developing nuclear weapons.  "As a result, it now has a nuclear
arsenal
> capable of protecting the largest concentration of impoverished
citizens
> on Earth."
>
>       Different priorities
>
>       Comparing India's use of 2.5% of its GNP for military
expenditure
> with the 0.7% it spends on health, the report's verdict is stark.
>
>        "Unless India can quickly reorder priorities, it risks falling
into
> a demographic dark hole, one where population will begin to slow
because
> death rates are rising.
>        "It may be time for India to redefine security. The principal
> threat now may not be military aggression from without, but population

> growth  from within."
>



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