Industrial Revolution Research Paper

Environmental Issues and the Industrial Revolution
Ecology and Environmental Sustainability SCI201
Professor Barish
Argosy University

The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in Earth’s ecology and humans’ relationship with their environment (McLamb 2011). Every characteristic of human life and lifestyles changed intensely due to the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution effect human development, health and life longevity, social improvements, and impact on our natural resources, public health, energy usage, and sanitation.
There are three negative environmentally impacts that affected the Industrial Revolution human growth population, invention of automobiles, and urbanization.
With this involves combustion of a fossil fuel, a process that emits gases and affects the environment (King & Media n.d.). The U.S. Department of Transportation reported in December 1970 that over 89.9 billion vehicles travel our nation highways. However, by December 2011 that number increased to over 246.3 trillion automobiles. With such a high incline, how do automobiles affect our environment and the ozone layer? Majority of the pollution throughout our nation is caused by automobiles. The ozone layer is there to protect life from the ultraviolent rays from the sun. These layers become depleted due to high concentrations of chlorine or bromine atoms and include chlorofluorocarbons, or CFC’s, halons, methyl bromide, carbon tetrachloride and methyl chloroform (King & Media n.d.). Since the automobiles, emission gases contain few chlorine or bromine; therefore, they have little effect on depleting the ozone layers. However, the different gases and particles that automobiles emit affect our environment. Our vehicles contain different fluids such as motor oil, antifreeze, gasoline, refrigerants, and brake, transmission, hydraulic, and windshield-wiper fluids. There fluids can leak into our waterways and harm humans, animals, and fish. In addition, theses fluids pick up metals for wear and tear of the engine, which makes them more toxic to the
In certain states the environmental indicators has publicized the improvement in air and water quality since 1980. All this come about from business and industry has taken crucial steps to reduce the ozone and particle pollution. In addition, it is expected that additional reductions in motor vehicles will meet tough federal air quality standards.

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