Answer: Agriculture is increasingly harming the environment for multiple reasons. One being deforestation. Deforestation reduces ecological services it provides humans produces large amounts of Carbon Dioxide which adds to greenhouse gases -> which add to our current problem with climate change. Additionally, the pesticides and fertilizers agriculture uses can be harmful to the nearby ecosystems as it can end up in surrounding rivers which causes it to cycle back.
Alright bud the best answer to this question would be that one of the first scientists of the Renaissance to advance taxonomy through first hand observations was Cordus
