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Nature and the city. To live - preserving nature.
Natural environment is a set of many factors that are regulated naturally, without human intervention. For example, a person cannot influence the amount of rainfall, tides, or the temperature of the air outside. In general, the natural environment is part of our surroundings with its own inherent self-maintenance. In contrast, the urban environment is created by humans: buildings are erected, roads are laid out, flowerbeds are planted. However, all of this requires intervention to create and maintain. Natural ecosystems are in balance. If one component of the natural environment changes, the other components adapt smoothly to the change. In the city, the environment is shaped by man. He cannot always foresee what changes his activities will lead to. Man is forced to find ways to solve the problems he has created himself. As the city grows, its inhabitants become more and more distant from nature, the environment becomes artificial. Everything that is created in the city for the convenience of man, gradually begins to act against him. Agriculture creates a greater impact on the natural environment than any other sector of the national economy. The reason for this is that agriculture requires huge areas of land. As a result, the landscapes of entire continents are changing. Agricultural landscapes turned out to be unstable, which led to a number of local and regional ecological catastrophes. Thus, improper land reclamation has caused soil salinization and loss of most of the cultivated land, deep plowing has led to dust storms in Kazakhstan and America. Agriculture should be considered as a huge, constantly operating mechanism of protection, cultivation of living natural wealth, and it should be approached from another angle of environmental protection. Therefore, in the conditions of agrarian production, the use of natural resources and, above all, land should be combined with measures to protect the environment.