19th Century Environment

Environment pollution seems to be one of the hottest topic nowadays. Whatever lands, air, water or other kinds of pollution became worse and worse, and make many people worry about our home, the Earth. However, these are not the new problems. All of these pollution problems can be data back to the industry evolution. In the second industry evolution, people began use steel, petroleum, and the continuous uses of coal. The industry evolution made the medium and high-level people richer and richer, and the low lever people still poor. For those rich people, their consumption ability is better than before, so they seek for a better live quality. At the same time, the mass consumption made more and more pollution. Different kinds of disease at that
At that time, they don’t have any rule or regulation on sanitation. People dumped waste from their window toward the street, so the street were full of all kind of waste, such as, industry waste, animal waste, and human waste. And the poor people just can stay in the same room with multiple families. As the environment was so horrible dirty, it gave a chance to bacterium to develop and spread very fast. As a result, cholera, tuberculosis, typhoid spread everywhere. The condition was awful that people getting sick and dead all the time, and according to the video, there are fourteen thousand people died a year from four seasons. This situation until a photographer showed up. He took picture of how these people live in the New York City, and showed all these picture to the wealth people. He wanted to let those wealth people know that there are still some people’s live condition was so horrible. As books and magazines were not will to published these pictures, he just can show all these pictures by himself. The lucky thing is George Waring organized some people who wear white clothes to clean the New York City’s streets. They clean 433 miles street, which help save the life of
In this kind of air condition, some people become familiar with and accept it is part of their daily life. Some people even consider that it smiles like money, because once the industry working, they have work and they can earn more money. When people became wealth, they would consume more products and the industry will produce more products. Though some people like this smog, there were also some people worry about it. There’s a farmer who’s fruit tree near the industry area. His fruit trees and fruits were damaged by the smoke. Even he wanted to get some compensation, the ruling rejected him and tool him it’s impossible. In the beginning of twentieth century, London’s authorities tried to pass law to limited the smog, but it did not get succeed. On the other hand, there were some people aware this smog was so harmful and tried to clean their air. It also did not succeed, because of the same reason, the law was so weak to limited people’s behavior. In this comprehensive situation, the industry still ran every day and almost without interruption. The air became worse and worse, it still has different kind of problem even