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How Was The Green Revolution Beneficial

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Was the Green Revolution Beneficial? There is a lot of controversy about if The Green Revolution was a beneficial time period. The Green Revolution was when the production of global agriculture had been increasing drastically as a result of science and newer technologies. The biggest advance was chemical fertilizers used on crops. These chemical fertilizers helped make it easier to add extra nutrients to crops which increased yield. They became useful as herbicides and pesticides to control weeds, kill insects, and prevent diseases, which soon resulted in higher productivity. In my opinion, I see more cons than pros in this situation. I believe we need to stop the use of fertilizers. These fertilizers are so strong that if they ever needed to kill these chemicals, it would be almost impossible. I like to compare these chemicals to antibiotics. When a person takes a antibiotic, they take it to kill the bacteria which is making the person. Crops naturally attract bugs and diseases, which humans do not want to consume, therefore they spray the fertilizers to kill these bugs and diseases. This may seem fine, but if we continue to use these chemicals, super weeds and pests will come back even stronger. …show more content…

Mono-culturing calls for large tracts of land, which is not always available due to the expansion of urban areas, but if you do have that much land available, you will need a lot of water and fertilizers as well, which brings troubles to farmers. The last detail that struck me was that these fertilizers and pesticides are attempting to kill harmful bugs, but are actually killing off species that help us. The pesticides are strong enough to kill the helpful bugs, but not the bugs that are actually contaminating our food. This last detail made it completely clear to me that using the fertilizers was not that beneficial after

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