Derelict Land

Recently while I was at home, looking through my IH textbook, trying to find information to complete my assignment, when I came across an interesting fact about derelict land. They explained derelict land as something like a once arable land that had been destroyed, mostly due to activities by Man. The mentioned about forest fires, as well as mining activities, together with poor farming activities, where farmers grow many crops on the same plot of land over and over again with a short period of time, depleting its nutrients. The mining activities however, lead to more serious consequences. When mining is done, huge massive holes are dug in the ground so as to            dig up all the minerals that were underground. After these mines were abandoned, the holes were not filled up.

If a land was made derelict by farming activities, all that needs to be done is to fertilise the soil with fertilisers. However if the land is made derelict by farming activities, heaps of soil need to be brought in to cover up the massive holes

 I feel that it is very inconsiderate for these people to destroy the land, because of the fact that it takes a lot of time to reclaim the land. Especially these farmers have the responsibility of taking care of their own land. Once the land is not arable anymore, they will shift to another plot of land, and destroy even more land and make more land derelict. For mining activities, the damage they do is not so easy, and takes a lot of money and effort to fix. If they want to do mining, they should do farming on perhaps mountains instead, since the land there is not really suitable for farming in the first place due to the slopes, which may cause soil erosion.

All in all, I feel that those who have damaged the land are very inconsiderate, and should learn to put themselves in the shoes of other people.