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Re:India air pollution at 'unbearable levels' by icegreentea2 on Sunday November 03, 2019 @02:48PM (#21436125)
Overpopulation is always relative. It means that the population at hand exceeds the amount that existing systems can cope with. You can argue that Indian society is badly organized and that their current population levels and densities could be sustained with better societal systems, but that doesn't quite capture how difficult it is to fix societal systems.
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Re:India air pollution at 'unbearable levels' by whatshisface on Sunday November 03, 2019 @03:09PM (#21436240)
What's easier, improving infrastructure or lowering the population?
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Re:India air pollution at 'unbearable levels' by icegreentea2 on Sunday November 03, 2019 @03:26PM (#21436352)
I get your point - it's obviously easier to solve the problem (at least if you want to act ethically) by improving infrastructure.

But that also has the risk of trivializing the problem. Improve infrastructure is hard, especially in a compromised system.

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Re:India air pollution at 'unbearable levels' by BurningFrog on Sunday November 03, 2019 @03:55PM (#21436529)
Genocide (which I assume is the "unethical" option) is also hard, and tends to destroy infrastructure as well...

I do agree that improving governance is much, much easier said than done. And to be fair, India has had substantial progress.

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Re:India air pollution at 'unbearable levels' by BurningFrog on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:00AM (#21442820)
> It means that the population at hand exceeds the amount that existing systems can cope with

I think this is just a different phrasing of "Indian society is badly organized".

Which is a different way of saying I think we mostly agree.

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