[0606-独立]Modern agriculture methods damage the environment, but providing food for the growing population around the world is more important than protecting the environment
Recently, a heated topic has arose among the public. Even through modern agriculture methods damage the environment, the new methods make it possible providing food for the growing population around the world. This advantage outweighs the importance of protecting the environment in some ways. However, from my perspective, I refute to accept the assertion for some reasons.
In the first place, good and sustainable environment is the fundamental basis for human beings. Although more people can have access to enough food, if the environment gets worse, it means nothing for the development of agriculture. In the past, farmers use traditional method to grow crops. With the introduction of fertilizer, farmers have more harvest than before but the rivers got polluted because of the overuse of the fertilizer. The damage of the environment is more difficult for the government to solve compared with the change of the agriculture methods. As time goes by, these rivers will finally become the places where no fish can live and the water in there will not suitable for the growth of crops. Modern agriculture methods can lift the harvest. However, if it has bad influence on the environment, it will do harm to human beings in long-term.
Second, we only have one Earth, but we have many ways to deal with the population increase and food shortage. As the assertion has mentioned, the main advantage of the modern agriculture method is that they can relief the pressure of food shortage. However, if we must sacrifice the environment to get the advanced agriculture methods, I prefer to say no to the development of the methods. We have many other ways to help people laking enough food. Educating the public and having them have the awareness of not wasting food is the example of the solution. We can see many college students waste a lot of food in their daily lives. If the school or some media take the responsibilities to propagate the importance of food, the situation of food shortage will be much better.
The last point is that the so-called modern agriculture methods are not the best methods for human beings in long-term. If the future method can provide enough food for the increase population and have no harm to the environment, this method is the best method. Since I have mentioned before, what we need to live a better live is a sustainable environment. So we must try our best to keep the smooth going of the environment. Scientists should put more efforts to the study of more environmentally friendly method of crop growing.
In summary, solving the food shortage problem is not the final goal of our human beings. Even through modern agriculture methods can relief the pressure right now, it can do harm to the environment as well. This is not what we want. In order to have a better and lighter future live, more efforts should be made to the research of advanced agriculture methods.
这篇文章真是各种没思路。。要是考场遇上感觉就要跪了。。
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