anthropology 102
Anthropology 02
10/05/2000
What are the benefits of intensifying agriculture? (Horticulture to intensive agriculture to
mechanized agriculture)? What are the additional costs?
Comparing the costs and benefits of a complex mechanized culture to a simple horticulture
one can see the great benefits for a society that has developed an intensifying agriculture. The
benefits of moving from horticulture to intensive agriculture to mechanized agriculture is that in
intensive and mechanized agriculture there is less manual labor. This means …
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…we are going to use fossil fuel to operate them
which causes air pollution. One other problem affiliated with intensive and mechanized
agriculture is pesticides which is used to kill all the insects that eat the crops, the problem here is
that not all the pesticides get washed off and we are exposed to some levels of pesticide. Besides
these minor costs the benefits of intensive and mechanized agriculture far out pace horticulture.
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