▶ Your Answer : It has been generally argued about whether agriculture damages environment by producing many food people eat to live. Some people might think that agricultural activities have nothing to do with circumstance and it is helpful to provide people with many delicious vegetables and diets; Nevertheless, others might disagree with it. However, I am convinced that agriculture has a negative impact on environment. Actually, I have two specific reasons to strengthen my assertion. I will show and develop my personal idea as specifically as I can in the next following paragraphs: the destruction of wetland and many toxic materials in the agricultural process. To begin with, agriculture people have performed for their food can destroy many wetlands spreaded all over the world. It does not takes a genius to know that agricultural behaviors transform wetland into the other ground and much water is required to cultivate the land. However these changes is not desirable for environment near the agriculture and many organism living in the wetland. Once I took an environment class when I was a freshmen in my college and learned about the effect that agricultural activities have on environment and many organic matters in the wetland. the professor in the lecture told that there are a bunch of creatures and organisms living in the wetland which has distinctive attributes, making many organisms evolve into the new species and living in the place. However, because of usage of water and the process of agriculture, wetland was devastating and disappearing, which makes many species in the wetland die. The lecturer emphasized that it can become very serious to do agriculture more and more gradually because there are many species in the world very related with the organisms in the wetland. therefore causing one somewhat small changes under the criteria of the world to mass up all over the world. To this vein, agricultural activities that derive water from the wetland damage environment. Moreover, chemical and toxic ingredients for agriculture is harmful to environment. Farmers has been doing their work since a long time ago in means of making many foods and as times go by, there have been many people in the world, which is needed many sources to accommodate them technology has been advanced, solving this problems. in order to deal with increasing many people, many professionist, such as scientist, biologist, and chemist and so on created a variety of fertilizer and materials that can encourage many crop in the farmland to grow more faster and better than they didn't use anything. However, the advanced fertilizer and materials is consisted of toxic ingredients, which has an negative impact on environment in terms of harming many organisms and devastating many land. KERC, Korean Environmental Research Center in South Korea, conducted a research on the flow of the toxic materials. The research clearly demonstrated that the toxic ingredients included in fertilizer and chemical materials for agriculture spreaded from lake, river, and even sea, and those makes many organisms, animals, and plants harm and die in the flowing process. Furthermore, researcher said that remaining chemical ingredients of those might not be able to disappear completely for some centuries. Therefore, it could be very serious that currently agriculture damages environment continuously. To summarize the points made in the paragraphs above, I concretely believe that agriculture harms environment even though it provide people to get many food in that the disappearance of wetland and the impact of many harmful fertilizers and materials for agriculture. |