In this lesson, you've learned that population growth as well as technological advances impact the environment. Select the theme of either population growth or technological advancements. Write an essay of 200 words describing ways that population growth has or technological advances have impacted the environment in your community.

The area in which I live is the Tikvesh area. Initially, the population in the area has been very low, and most of it has been covered in dense deciduous forest. The population was growing overtime though.

With the growth of the population more food was needed. This made the people to start cutting down the forest and opened up space for more agricultural land in order to produce enough food.

That had very bad effect on the environment, as the forest has been destroyed in big portion, which has resulted in dying out of lot of animals in the area, but also large scale erosion. Another noticeable change has been the increased temperature and decrease in precipitation.

As the times were changing, and the area started to industrialize, numerous factories have been opened up, and even more people flocked into the area. Some factories, such as the fero-nickel manufacturing one, contributed to big pollution of the air and the water. Some were focused on making goods from agricultural products, so the agriculture increased even more.

The area also started to specialize, as there was no more need to engage into subsidence farming, since the food could have been gotten from the other areas without any problems, so the agriculture started to specialize, so most of the arable land has been converted to vineyards.

The vineyards need lot of chemicals in order for the grapes to be safe from diseases and pests. The intense usage of chemicals has resulted in pollution of the groundwater, annihilation of numerous plants and smaller animals, and total change of the landscape.