Land Pollution Case Study

Any type of land pollution tends to lessen the land productivity as an ideal land for construction, agriculture, and forestation. There is an increasing alarm over the increase of barren and unproductive lands as well as the decreasing forest cover in the whole world, and if this is not controlled there will be adverse effects on the climate and environment. Besides, the increasing population has led to extensions of towns and cities. However, it is as well important to note that there have been plans for land reclamation to help meet the increasing land demands. Although land pollution is considered as a menace that should be condemned and done away with, there are reasons to believe that land pollution has positive effects both on the human life as well as on the environment.

Chemicals are manufactured with an aim of increasing agricultural yields (Jin et al, 2018). Therefore, it would be almost impossible to sustain high crop productivity without use of fertilizers, pesticides and other chemicals. Besides, abolition the use of these chemicals will result to decline of several companies that offer employment opportunities to many. Land pollution through deforestation changes the climatic patterns, and this adversely affects the environment due to the compromise on the tree cover. Compromise on the tree cover leads to the sharp imbalances to the rain cycle which in turn affects various factors such as reduction of the green cover. All these provide better reasons to campaign against land pollution. On the contrary, there are people who believe in urbanization, and consider growth of towns and cities as avenues for job opportunities and investment avenues.

Without urbanization, there will be less interaction of people of different cultural backgrounds, and there are better reasons to support urbanization despite its effect of land pollution. From the evaluation on the dangers and benefits of land pollution, it is quite important to note that as much as land pollution has got negative effects on the human life and environment it is important to consider how much people will suffer without land pollution in the societies especially in loss of job opportunities. This therefore controls for regulation of land pollution rather than its eradication. j. scitotenv. Dong, Y. Liu, Y. Chen, J. doi:10. j. scitotenv.