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0909........越来越懒惰。发展现代农业应否以环境为代价。
People regard food as their prime want, and the result of such desire can be a disaster of the environment. Some people may argue that in order to feed up more individuals, we should and have to sacrifice environment for modern agriculture. However, I hold the opposite opinion that we should never let the environment make a way for more food and population.
First of all, as human being, we should live our lives in a happy and healthy way instead of surviving and demanding more offspring. Actually, modern agriculture ensures the latter circumstance - the more pathetic living conditions but it will cause severe consequences which can destroy our health and lower our quality of life. To take health problem as an example, modern agriculture has indirect connection with environmental problem and physical diseases. The extending farmland occupied the area where used to be forest and grassland, and the degradation of forest and grassland brings haze as well as sandstorm. As is reported in the news, more than thousands of people got respiratory disease due to the air pollution and environmental destruction. Furthermore, modern farming also has some other potential hidden troubles for human health, as no one in the world can proof that transgenic will do no harm to our health, but one thing is certain that in many countries, transgenic plant can not be used for human food.
Moreover, demolishing environment for producing food is also a nightmare for our descendant. The habitats of various animals and plants will be changed to farm land and soon or later, many beautiful sceneries and cute animals will only be seen in the museums. And such disasters have already occurred in the past. For example, the wild Siberian tiger is extinct because of human activities, and the only way we learn it and see it is to go to the museum of nature to watch its specimen. Also, a kind of plant called Chinese dove tree by many people is dying out at the same time, which not only has beautiful flowers, but also is a treasury medical plant. As for natural sceneries, if we do not limit the expanding of modern agriculture, our children may never have the opportunities to know what Amazon Forest is and how yellow stone looks like, because no matter where they go and which country they visit, they will only view the boundless cropland and fat, lazy cows. I am not willing to live in a tedious world like this, neither is my daughter or son.
When taking into accounts all the reasons I mentioned above, I would come to the conclusion that, though modern agriculture means more food, we should not easily improve it at the expense of destroying the environment, because only with a better environment, we and our descendants can have a better life.
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