virtually eradicated malaria from more than "20 countries populated by more than 1 billion humans. In India where DDT reduced malaria from 75 million cases a year (with 1 million deaths) to less than 5 million cases a year (with less than 5,000 deaths) in a decade. The life span of Indians was extended from 32 years to 47. In the United States a similar program reduced endemic malaria from 250,000 cases a year during the 1930s to less than 10 cases a year by 1950.(Grolier Encypedia) This is only one the many examples where technology is beneficial to us. Without a doubt medicine lets humans live longer and healthier, thus substantially controlling the death rate. .
In the 1940's an acre of planted onions would produce 200 sacks of onions. Now however, if a farmer does not produce 800 sacks of onions per acre then perhaps the farmer should start a new lifestyle. Now a days competition among farmers is ver intense which makes it hard to earn a living from farming. Technology helps farmers to advance in the competition and increase the yield of their crop. .
Like everything else these days, inventions which help to advance the farmers have their price. To make more food one has to destroy existing land and cultivate it. When cultivating however a farmer exposes the vital nutrient that is in the soul to nature's wind. As vital nutrients sit on top of the soil the wind comes along and blows it away thus robbing the soil nutrients therefore decreasing the quality of the compared before. Pesticides and better weather forecasting reduces cases of crop loss. Developing country farmers proved willing and able to learn and apply improved techniques. It is hard for farmers to admit that his or her plant will ever run out food, considering that technology help production of farming, where it tripled since 1948. .
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With contraceptives, such as condoms, birth control pills and abortions we see means of limiting reproduction.