The sterilisation program became corrupted and subsequently abandoned through the actions of Sanjay Gandhi and others who were forcing/coercing regardless which led also to botched operations.

If one understands the ecological principles of food web tropic levels, then one should understand that a consequence of our ever increasing population, relative to the essential biodiversity of higher life form conducive natural ecosystems, is that we’re causing the extinction of an alarming number of other life forms daily just to support our own biomass. We’re systematically shifting the biomass of the many life forms we’re not smart enough to care about, into the biomass of a lesser number of life forms we use to maintain our own biomass (e.g. cows, chickens, corn, beans, tomatoes, …). That is, we’re systematically diminishing the biodiversity of the natural biological communities, and in so doing are destabilizing nature’s infrastructure that is keeping us alive.

The key factors of healthy ecosystems (in the sense of being conducive to human existence) are sustainable long term productivity through extensive biodiversity to exploit all the ecological niches (in time, space, and kind), and relative stability through the overall balance of ecological processes in minimizing ecosystem state shifts. This more complete utilization of limiting resources at higher diversity increases resource retention through more thorough and efficient recycling increasing productivity, and the balance of inherently more intricate ecological processes promote stabilization.

For a better understanding of how we are jeopardizing the shorter term state of human existence on Earth, see the article Natural World Consciousness at achinook.com

Will objective understanding or subjective beliefs prevail?

Lee C

When people don’t understand how overpopulation impacts everyone, particularly poor people, they begin to think that those who are concerned about population are racist or extremist, so they turn a deaf ear to people who talk about population.

Then there are those who feel that they have worked very hard to achieve their lifestyle and feel that their way of life is threatened when we talk about population, because we can’t talk about population without comparing footprints of Bangladesh people with footprints of Europeans or North Americans. Population and consumption are two sides of the same coin, so many in the richer countries shy away from population.

Others in richer countries, out of feelings of guilt over how much more they consume than people in poor countries, tend to work towards conserving, recycling, eating less meat, and living close to work. But when it comes to population, they don’t want to point fingers at poor people, not realizing the plight of poor people outgrowing their own land, and don’t realize that such large numbers of poor people can overwhelm the best of conservation efforts in developed countries.