Deconstruction of Population, Politics and Environment: Towards Sustainable Development

The last few decades have perceived a revolution in the relationships between human beings and their natural environment which is confronted with severe pollution, hazardous waste and burdened by the rapid population growth of the developing world along with unequal consumption pattern of the developed countries, starvation, desertification, loss of biodiversity and global worming. Most Developed Countries have posed to a throwaway worldview based on the technocentrism that nature was to be ruthlessly subdued and controlled for the sake of industrialization and economic growth. The result has been the rise of question of sustainable earth. This paper tries to provide a polemical debate between population and environmental degradation centering highly unequal consumption pattern of the developed countries. It also links how population explosion in the developing countries become a political issue in sustaining the world rather than the exploitative and exhaustive nature of the developed countries having a small portion of world’s population.