According to the passage the increasing use of fertilizers is responsible for
The assault on the purity of the environment is the price that i pay for many of the benefits of modern technology. For tit advantage of automotive transportation we pay a price in smoginduced diseases; for the powerful effects of new insecticides, pay a price in dwindling wild life and disturbances in the relation of living things and their surroundings; for nuclear power, we risk the biological hazards of radiation. By increasing agricultural production with fertilizers, we worsen water pollution. The benefits of technology can, in fact, lead to long-term harmful effects on life and living things.
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