Human Impact Goudie Summary

In Goudie’s writing “Human Impact”, she talks about the increase in the human population and what cause it. The two revolution she attributed to it was the agricultural and industrial revolution, where there is no doubt it increased the population. There were many new technologies and ways that caused the population growth and environmental changes in the agricultural and industrial revolution. In early human societies before the idea of agricultural, humans were hunter and gathers. Hunter and gatherers would depend on wild animals and wild plants for food. This wasn’t a bad idea because it was effective, but it didn’t help with the increase in population size. The majority of hunter and gatherers were nomadic, where they wouldn’t have a stationary home, but rater move and follow their animals they hunt. …show more content…
When humans started to farm food (agriculture), they didn’t need to be nomadic and move around because they had food and it tied them to one place. This not only made food more abundant, but finally they started a community. One important thing that was made available during the agricultural revolution was the domestication of animals such as cows. When animals started to become domesticated it definitely helped humans, they started to learn the benefits of cows as it made farming more easy and they learned to drink from its milk, which they never did before. Another technology that become available during the agricultural revolution was irrigation. Irrigation was very important because helped humans to get water faster and more efficiently to their crops. There were some areas and lands that were really hot and dry and it would have been virtually impossible for plants or food to grow, irrigation made it