Question

Population explosion is the root cause for depletion of natural resources. Explain.

Answer 1

Natural resources are those resources which are present in nature:

These are of two types:

1) Renewable sources. Eg. Sun, Wind, Water etc

2) Non-renewable sources: Minerals, metal arcs, fossil fuels etc

These natural resources are of continuous use to mankind.

These resources are getting depleted due to many reasons, population explosion being the most common cause of depletion of natural resources.

Due to increase in population, the demand of humans for food, clothing and shelter are increasing due to which forests or agricultural lands are cut

Urbanisation also increases the need of minerals, metal ores etc

Hence population results in depletion of resources which can be an alarming threat for future.