Topic: In the modern world we take a lot for granted. We sometimes don't realize that before the industrial revolution there was not all the convinences that we now have. No medicne, food storage, or sanitary conditins like we have today. There are always side effects to industrialization. Water and food sources become dirty and nature almost dissapers.
Source: I have seen many small towns become vicims of industilization. They are helped by this at first but as it continues they suffer. Jobs are lost and people are hurt. Nature takes the hardest hit though. The water becomes dirty, and the air becomes hard to breath. Trees are cut down for buldings and whole grasslands are plowed to make way for strip malls. It is truely a sad sight. All of these things happened to the small town of Lincoln. I saw before my very eyes trees and grasslands that had stood unchanged for as long as I could remember be destroyed.
Relation: Many people around the world are loosing who the are as industialization takes hold. They lose their culture and way of life that they had known their whole lives as a more efficiant way takes hold. Their water and air becomes dirty as smoke stacks rise into the air and a culture slowly dies.
Analysis: Change can be a good thing. We are now living longer because of a better diet and medicne. We must realize that everything we do has negitive effects as well as positive ones. We must not completly destroy nature because as much as some may not like to admit it we are a part of nature. I like modern convensices as much as the next person, like cars, easy food and the such, so I know that there are a great many good things that we can get form having an industialized world. We should also look at the other cultures and see what they want not just tell them that our way is the best way.
Like you said "change can be a good thing." In the form of industrialization there are definite winners and losers. I think those that win tend to be in a more well off socioeconomic position. The losers are those that end up with the factory and its pollution in their town.
ReplyDeleteeither way you look at it, there is a benefit and bad effects of a change in environment and production.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Haley completely as it hard to address all of the environment impacts when it comes to industrialization but you also make a great point how some other cultures aren't addressed or represented for industrialization at a large scale, across the globe.
ReplyDeleteI can't even imagine living in a world without modern sanitary conditions, food storage or medicine. It's weird and kind of ironic because these things were developed out of good intentions and to help humanity (make our lives easier, help us live longer, etc.) yet they are destroying the world we live in. Your sentence about watching the trees and grasslands being destroyed really resonated with me. You, like many of us, were clearly very upset about the loss of the trees, and it's so strange because the reason they were being cut down was to make our lives better.
ReplyDeleteI too enjoy all the luxuries of modern life but I also hate how our world is being slowly destroyed as a result. I love living up here in Humboldt because the air is so fresh and unpolluted and it almost feels untouched. Coming from L.A., Arcata is a huge change. You can actually feel the difference in the air quality. It is one of the few places in the world that is not taken over by fast food chains and corporations.
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