Environment During The Industrial Revolution

During the industrial revolution there were two types of people throughout society. Those who loved industrializing and improving their standard of living and those who felt it was necessary to worry about the environment and how the earth would be affected. Cases were brought to people on how the factories were destroying and corrupting the earth's environment when in reality they didn’t look at the good and they had little to no information on the environment. I have believed the state of a self sustaining economy by the people is more important than a little pollution into the air at this time. I don’t think anyone would be rooting for the environment when they’re living on the streets with little to no food.
During the Industrial Revolution, people claimed that the environment was the most important problem that we had to focus on at the current time. Yet people tend to forget about the times that we had when the economy wasn’t good and people were
living on the streets with no food or water basically starving. During this time, people finally starting to influx the economy with new machinery and allowing for more products to be distributed and to allow the economy to fluctuate. Eli Whitney created the first ever Cotton Gin to allow people to create an abundance amount of Cotton to sell and create clothes for workers working in the factory. The economy is set to keep everything at a certain price and to ensure that everyone or most of everyone is making a decent living and that the ideology of globalization is working. People claim that coal or tin or gold factories are causing pollution into the atmosphere, which is correct. Although, factories were damaging the environment, factories weren’t running for a long enough time before they were put in with filtration devices to cause a real harm to the environment. As stated here “The Industrial Revolution began in the late 18th and 19th centuries and was a period of significant economic development”. Many people prior to the development of the Industrial Revolution were working with tools inside their home and and were using small types of tools to craft objects. History.com even states “The iron and textile industries, along with the development of the steam engine, played central roles in the Industrial Revolution, which also saw improved systems of transportation, communication and banking” thus proving even more great benefits of the Industrial revolution rather than looking on the minor issues such as Carbon Dioxide Pollution. People were able to mass produce products such as cloth, metals & food supplies much faster than how people were doing manually before. More people were moving out of the poverty line and into middle class with a massive job increase of more than Twenty thousand job openings for one factory alone or company. Jobs boosted almost 65% of people in poverty into the middle class category and allowed people to have more items in their household and allowed people to buy more even further increasing the economy thus making the United states of America, Russia & other Industrialized countries to become national super powers.
Now people always come back with the fact “think about your kids in the future when the pollution is awful.” Yet nobody ever claims how if there was no economy there wouldn’t be a pollution problem because everyone would be eating stale bread on the street working on there hands and knees in the farm lands.
According to sources, Nearly 7years into the Industrial Revolution people a lot of people were employed and making a decent living, it didn’t take a specialized training course to know what you were doing and you got to work inside a factory away from the rain, heat, snow etc. Pollution was only a small effect to a much larger greater effect. It allowed people more jobs and allowed people to rise above the poverty line and actually have a home and a family and a decent life rather than before. Although I give credit to say pollution is bad for the environment and we should try to keep it minimal, during this time you must keep focus on the extremely important rather than the minor problems that are outcomes of
it.
To conclude, during the Industrial Revolution, it was more important to focus on the people and improving the economy, than it did to focus on if there was going to be a little pollution afterwards.