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Geography Optional 300+ Score Pack · Model answer

“Controlling population growth is the sustainable solution to environmental problems.” Express your views with suitable arguments.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Environmental Geography

The statement is neo-Malthusian: it treats headcount as the master lever of environmental stress.

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  • The Case for Population Control
  • Why It Is Not the Sustainable Solution
  • Consumption, Not Numbers, Drives the Global Load
  • Population Is Already Self-Correcting — Too Slowly to Matter for Climate
  • Numbers Can Be a Resource
  • The Ethics of Blame
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion

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