Agricultural Land Converted To Industrial Facility

Jan 17th, 2008 | By oniger | Category: Environment

Who will be the most affected people when an agricultural land is converted to something else?  When effect will be felt? Who think that converting a field a good reformation for the farmer?

Obviously, the most affected people when an agricultural land converted into an industrial facility will be the farmers who had been tilling this parcel of land as their source of living.

Though they could have another and better source via this industrial facility, we all know that plants have a great effect to the environment. Not to mention that these farmers are contributing immensely in the production of food. Their lives will change suddenly due to to the abrupt change. Surely, they will not adapt the environment immediately.

Scientifically speaking, if an organism will be relocated to a new place, there are chances that the organism will die if he could not immediately adapt the new environment. Humans are just an organism on the earth just like any organism living in here.

I might sound sentimental, but these industrial facility though it could help also uplift the lives of the farmers, the land that had been covered by plants and to be covered by asphalt and cement will just accelerate the time bomb of global warming.

The farm is strategically located according to those promulgators. Surely, they will earn millions here, but the farmers will just be paid by the value of the land and later hired as a worker – an additional convincing resolution.

I am not in any way against with industrialization, but to displace and distort people’s thinking is another issue. One of my professors said, “that depends on your value in life.” What is value anyway? May I know you values?

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