Environmental, Financial, & Social Disadvantages To Industrialization
There are always going to be environmental, financial, and social disadvantages to industrialization. With any large changes or advancements, there will always be those opposed and those who are for it. Environmentally, the urbanization of the United States of America and the world has led to deforestation, extinction of species, widespread pollution and excessive waste. Also, Big companies are not held responsible for the environmental damages they have caused.
Long before the Europeans colonized the Western Hemisphere, the Native Americans lived a hunter gatherer lifestyle. This meant that they lived by foraging the earth for food, rather than living an agricultural lifestyle in which they would grow their own food. Hunter gatherers had stronger bodies and healthier lifestyles than the farming culture that would soon arise. Many of the plants that the hunter gatherers partook of provided them with immunities to most diseases. Once they started farming, the excrement they used as fertilizer would spread disease. Some of humanity discovered the benefits of water filtration and plumbing before others. Once industrialized, most cultures suffered from the lack of plumbing.
Now for a controversial statement: billionaires should not exist. For scale, one million seconds equals 278 hours, (about 11 days) and one billion seconds equals about 32 years. Even further, one trillion seconds equals 32,000 years. One trillion seconds ago, the Last Glacial Maximum of the ice age was still rendering the world cold, dry, and inhospitable. I say this to provoke thought on the subject of how money divides the world between rich and not rich, and the ways that this construct is manifested through urbanization and industrialization. Financially, it leads to a divide the rich and the poor due to a division of labor and capital.
How can any billionaire, or richer, sleep at night knowing that there are people who don’t know where their next meal is coming from? It’s all about money. Socially, it leads to many migrant workers moving to the city. Then, the factory workers feel less individuality and fulfillment. This fast-paced lifestyle leads to the consumption of quick, low-quality foods. But don’t get it twisted. I am the last person to bash technology and advances in thought and humanity. I’m just giving the facts. It is much more convenient to live in a big city where everything is fast paced. Food is cheap and easy, transportation is quick. I do not think that we should enforce my beliefs about capitalism and urbanization. I’m just giving the facts.
