Is Killing Our World And The People In It Worth It For Industrialization?

Industrialization isn’t worth the cost that it puts on the world. In a picture by the Library of Congress titled Factory Smoke Stacks (1890-1901), it shows factories polluting the environment with their smoke. This affects the environment and the society because it pollutes a lot, and there is such heavy pollution it isn’t good for anyone. If there is so much pollution, people won’t want to go out, and maybe stores might get shut down because they aren’t getting business. Also, all the pollution could make people sick, and it could be really dangerous. This shows how much industrialization costs us, and how much it affects the world around us. Likewise, the poster titled “Making Human Junk” by Lewis Wick Hine, (1913-1914) impacts children in awful ways. These children are good material at first, but then they are used for child labor. The labor they are put through changes them, and they end up with no future and considered as “junk”. They are paid such low wages, that the cost that industrialization is putting on them isn’t worth all the new technology. In addition, an accident report by Paul Underwood Kellogg (1916) tells us about all the statistics about people being killed in factories working. So many people are being affected by industrialization, and it isn’t right. People are practically sacrificing their lives for new technology. Industrialization is killing men, 60% who haven’t even reached the prime of their working life. That means that they are really young, and because of industrialization, people that young are dying. Industrialization has too many effects on the ecosystem, society, and people, so I think it was not worth the cost.