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 less people have to
             be involved in the production of food, it allows for people to specialize in different
             fields,(medicine, trading, ect.) rather that just farming. Animals and machinery are used to
             achieve more productivity in intensive and mechanized agriculture. Also with intensive and
             mechanized agriculture more people can live within a square mile than horticulture due to that
             fact of the productivity which they bring. These benefits of course come with some costs. These
             costs affiliated with intensifying and mechanizing include pollution ( air, and water), it causes
             unemployment because now not everyone needs to work in agriculture so there are going to be
             people unemployed, and with the use of machines 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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