The planet's population is reaching unsustainable levels, and people are facing shortage of resources like water, food and fuel. To what consequences may overpopulation lead? In your opinion, what measures can be taken to fight overpopulation?

I am writing
this
letter to request your approval for taking a few days off to go to my home country; to attend my brother's wedding. I would like to have a leave for
fifteen
days from December 20th. As my home country, India is really far away from here and takes three days to reach there by connecting flights, I would need a little more than six days just for flying.
Hence
,
fifteen
days is the least amount of leave I could do with, to attend the function. I
am planning
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plan
to go to India before the end of the semester because my brother's wedding has been fixed for December 30th.
Also
, being his only brother I would need to attend the function.
Further
, I would be completing all my interim exams before I leave on December 20th.
Additionally
, as I
will be away only
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will only be away
for a short duration of
fifteen
days, I would be able to catch up with the missed portions in less than a week. Not just that, in
this
period of
fifteen
days, 6 days of holidays have been included for Christmas.
Hence
, I would be effectively missing a very small portion of
lecture
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the lecture
.
This
missed portion, I can assure you that I would be
catching
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caught
up in less than a week
from
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since
then
.
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