According to "Singham," a fists-of-steel throwback of a Bollywood film, India suffers from three things: "pollution, population and corruption".
Now, their venture capital firm, XPV Capital, is part of the growing group of investors, entrepreneurs, scientists and government groups focused on problems affecting the water supply — pollution, population growth, urbanization, climate change, aging infrastructure — and the potential solutions.
When people suggest that pollution, population growth, waste, and bad policy have already placed unacceptable burdens on the global supply of freshwater, or that industrial development in places like India and China can only hasten inevitable environmental catastrophe, Peter Gleick likes to remind them about the Cuyahoga River.
Previously, a lot of work has been done by researchers considering pollution, population, toxicant, industrialization, climate change (due to anthropogenic and natural causes) [4 8].
Environmental pollution, population explosion, nuclear arm proliferation, conservation of electricity and giving to charity are all examples of situations where an individual benefits by not contributing to the common cause, but if all individuals free ride, everyone is worse off.
As we discussed last week, today kicks off China's Plenary Planning Session for the next 5 years that may or may not conclude on Friday with long-range plans regarding trade, pollution, population control (too many men at the moment), energy, infrastructure and, of particular concern to investors - GDP.
But we're up against the tide of politics, pollution and population in East Hampton".
To these ecological crimes we can add global pollution, unrestrained population growth and overhunting.
Given we're hitting peak oil, peak finance, peak pollution, peak population, peak uranium, etc, there are huge opportunities for innovation - the time to act is now.
Decreased car use would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and thus the need for biofuels, and increased physical activity levels, would reduce injury risk and air pollution, improving population health.
Fractional logit models show that, similar to other types of pollution, both population and GDP are significant explanatory variables.
