1. Threatening national food security and food safety. Soil pollution leads to the decline of cultivated land quality, which directly threatens the red line of 65.438+0.8 billion mu of cultivated land, leads to the excessive content of heavy metals in grain and agricultural products, and affects food safety.

Second, it is harmful to human health. After the heavy metals in soil enter the human body through the food chain, they have carcinogenic, teratogenic and mutagenic effects.

Third, it affects social stability. The prevention and control of soil pollution involves the relocation of workers in industrial and mining enterprises, compensation for farmers' economic losses and compensation for people's health damage. If not handled properly, it will affect social harmony and stability.

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Methods to prevent and control soil pollution:

First, change ideas and establish an assessment system for ecological civilization. We should combine the prevention and control of soil pollution with the transformation of development mode and the development of modern agriculture. It is necessary to speed up the improvement of the evaluation index system of ecological civilization construction, promote its inclusion in the assessment of cadres' political achievements, and further play the role of "baton" in assessment.

Second, mobilize the whole people and establish a public participation mechanism. Earth breeds everything, which is the foundation for the survival and development of the Chinese nation from generation to generation. It is necessary to form an overall pattern of soil pollution prevention and control with national mobilization, local responsibility and departmental support. It is urgent to prevent soil pollution and protect people's health.

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