Agricultural technology requires trade-offs between increased production
and environmental harm and between efficient production and social values.
In the past century, agricultural technology led to a huge shift of population
from farms to cities and a great change in how people live and work.
| NSES Content Standard F
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Natural resources Grades 9-12, page 198 The earth does not have infinite resources; increasing human consumption places severe stress on the natural processes that renew some resources, and it depletes those resources that cannot be renewed. |