The Industrial Revolution was the turning point in Earth's ecology, and the relationship between humans and the environment as a whole. However, our pursuit of developing our countries at a rapid pace, we started the erosion of natural resources. As a result, many resources are now on the verge of exhaustion or scarcity.
The changes in agriculture, mining, manufacturing and transportation has improved the basic quality of human life. However, while these changes depleted the planet's natural resources. Furthermore, the release of carbon into the atmosphere has been polluted the environment. And due to deforestation rampant, there are not enough trees left that can absorb those carbon emissions. Therefore, the average temperatures worldwide increases every year leading to melting glaciers and rising sea levels.
The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the 1700s and then quickly moved to the United States, before progressing to other parts of the world. However, the impact of industrialization on the environment and its resources was not visible even after 100 years. Radical processes recorded increases in production capacity, but also literally wiped the environment of their resources. Industrialization also increased the growth of the population as the standard of living higher. Therefore, our dependence on natural resources have increased and soon a majority of the resources became scarce. There is also a growing inequality between the way that the benefits of the resources are distributed between rich and poor.
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