India-BC

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**__Primary Source 1 __** [|An interview with Bill Clinton on India's Environmental Issues.] This was an interview from 2007 with Bill Clinton, he addressed a lot of ideas and information he has about the two countries of both China and India and the environmental issues going on there. The majority of the issues is pollution, Clinton commented on the event of a child who fell into a river in New Delhi, India's capital in 2006. The child was saved before he could've drowned, but in the end he died because of the amount of poison the boy swallowed in the water. This interview is a good source of a first hand look at the views of a former president and his take on these environmental issues in India.

**__Primary Source 2 __** [|A scientific research paper by the World Bank describing the health effects of air pollution in Delhi, India.] This research paper was a great primary source to follow up on because it explains more about the environmental issue of air pollution in New Delhi, India. It explains the horrid health conditions the people of New Delhi are starting to go through including premature death and more accounts of chronic heart and lung disease. The paper also states some statistics of the average lifespan of a person living in New Delhi. Over seventy percent of people living there die before the age of 65, and twenty percent dying before the age of even five years old. These insights and statistics helped me to more deeply understand the environmental issue of pollution in India.

__**Artifact 1**__ [|The WWF's website that explains the major environmental issues for India.] This was a helpful artifact because this website, by the WWF, included another environmental issue that had not been brought to my attention before for the country of India. This environmental issue is deforestation and is a problem because it leads to a major loss of natural resources. Also, India is a major oil consumer and one of three largest importers of palm oil in the world. The conservation of forests is a large threat to biodiversity and tropics. Deforestation is a huge problem in India and this website helped gain me more knowledge about this environmental issue.

**__Artifact 2 __** [|A list of environmental challenges for India to overcome.] This is also another website, but I chose it because it lists multiple challenges that India has to overcome in order to help the problems and issues with their environment. One example is the water availability in India. Only about sixty seven percent of Indians have running water in their homes. Another example of a challenge is the loss of natural habitats creating situations in which animals, such as lions, leopards, and monkeys, have interfered with the daily living of humans. This website not only gave these two examples but other examples as well explaining different challenges for India's environment.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">**__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Artifact 3 __** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[|An interview video that describes more challenges India has to overcome with their environment.] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">(This link is to the BBC website, to access the video, click on the "watch full interview" button.) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">This video talks about the booming economy that India has and how that is effecting India's environment, including global warming and pollution. Also it talks about the issue of water in India stating that irrigation and mining is a major effect of the lack of water. With the economy doing so well, the lack of water is soon going to start to effect that as well. This video helped me because it pulled in two aspects of India including both the environment and India's economy.