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Topic: Food can be produced much more cheaply today because of improved fertilizers and better machinery. However, some of the methods used to do this may be dangerous to human health and may have negative effects on local communities. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

A question central to today’s food debate is how people are able to balance between the utility of improved fertilizers or better machinery and the consequences to human health from chemical farm products. As far as I know, the farm by using chemical substances not only can not relieve the burden from the ratio between the numerous population and limited food, but also is prone to result in more severe environmental problems.

Undoubtedly, there is a prevalent conception in people’s mind that the wider utility of improved fertilizers is equal to the more harvest from farms. The reason why these man-made fertilizers are apt to be more popular than natural ones is their high efficient while the farmers can benefit more from these products with chemical elements because of the relative short cycle than do from the original ones. Nevertheless, the consequences from these cheap and high-efficient crop products are various. First of all, chemical elements in fertilizers, especially poisonous ones, are detrimental to people’s health. For example, the harmful substances absorbed by human organs, to a large extent, can lead to get cancers, such as kidney and liver cancers. Besides, such poisonous elements are apt to be accumulated in people’s body and so difficult to be cleaned up totally for a long period, in terms of pregnant woman, which can influence the future offspring growth, like disable or children with too low intelligence. The next consequence is that too much improved fertilizers cause a severe problem related to environmental and animal problems. To illustration, water used to irrigate the crop and pesticide is sprayed by helicopters will enter the river and lake from ditches, which threatens to fish health. Then, the chemical substances in fish body will divert into some water birds which have eaten these fish. Finally, human beings, consequently, who choose to eat these animals with man-made poisonous elements from improved fertilizers are the terminal victims at the end of this ecological system cycle.

Furthermore, the substantial order of utilizing these fertilizers and machinery is to boost the efficient of the products from farms while can alleviate the unbalance between the ongoing increasing population worldwide and relative limited food. However, the fact is that crops with machinery and chemical fertilizers just induce the larger starvation around the world. Soils are difficult to maintain the sustainable production because poisonous elements can damage the natural nutrition of soils, which finally leads to be desolation. What’s more, with the introduction of high technological machines to assart new crops, too many plants are destroyed by people. As a result, high quality soils will turn to be desert in the near future. People should confront not only on the serious problem of starvations, but on the deterioration of living environment.

Based on the discussions above, current modern technology products, such as improved fertilizers and machinery , can not improve our life standard though the price of them is relative cheaper than natural ones. Maybe human beings can be beneficial from these harvests with high efficient and cheap price in a short period, but this sort of production model can not meet the sustainable development of the world. Therefore, what we should do is to find another solution like environmental friendly method to the limited food.

通过自己2封E-mail的催促与中介的通力合作，顺利地在10月初拿到了COE，这也标志着留学准备进程已经过半。

8个月的准备，包括IELTS，学校咨询，官网查询，中介讲座等。在过程中，付出了许多，也学到了许多。发现那些对自己要求严格，甚至苛刻的人总是能走在最前面，自信也是建立在一段痛苦磨练的基础上的吧。有时虽然不像某些人读书非常用功，但是我还是蛮佩服自己有时的那股执着与韧性，想做到的事情，一定努力去做，无论成败与否，总相信有好的结果等待着我，也许正因为这股信念，闯过了，即使失败过，但最后的结果还是很让我欣慰的。

毕业4个月，周围原来的同学，现在的工作逐渐趋于稳定下来，每天朝九晚X的工作。感觉现在的生活就是一个大围城，我很羡慕那些每天有着充实工作的人，因为只有有了经济基础，才能为未来打下最扎实的基础，而他们则很垂涎我现在相对比较自由的生活。当真的生活成为一种规律，一种没有尽头的一种规律时，我是否还能认为那是一种充实，还是一种无奈？能回答这个问题的答案还是我太嫩了，哪天真能不顾四周的惊涛骇浪还能依旧划着自己的小舢板，那时的自己真能变得淡定自如，过着只属于自己的生活。

“即选之，则安之。”这是我最近一直说的话，有了相对自由堕落的空余时间，还是要好好利用起来，毕竟选的那条路还是非常艰辛，得到很多，失去的也会有很多。现在逐渐明白，放弃有时是需要更大的勇气。

10月24日，和高中同学一起聚会，和琳谈了很多，彼此很真诚也很轻松，第一次那么敞开心扉的聊天，很庆幸自己至今的努力。过去的事情也一点一滴在脑中回荡，回忆过去的同时也憧憬着未来。

制定了后半程的学习以及生活计划，有时发现没有考试的动力后，合理有效地安排生活还是件非常麻烦的事情，要用坚强的意志力去抵制外在的诱惑。这也许就是一直在压迫式学习下的负面影响吧。

即使目标再远大，只要不停地向那个方向努力，总有一天，你会发现你得到的早已超过了原先你所定的那个目标。