Was Industrialization Worth Facing The Consequences?

I do not believe that the benefits of new technologies were worth the cost. I believe that the Industrial Revolution impacted people, business, and society negatively.

Industrialization factories had impacted the environment and society by emitting heavy air pollution. According to the article “ Polluting the Environment “  air pollution became so heavy people needed streetlights to see during the day. Adding on to the consequences Industrialization caused, Industrialization also impacted the water which then became polluted causing typhoid fever and other diseases. Another reason why Industrialization has been impacting people, business, and society negatively is the spreading of child labor. The time of Industrialization had largely increased the open opportunities of jobs even leading to child labor because of the need of more workers to help create new technologies. Arguments from Lewis Wickes claimed that children who start working at a young age would end up with no future and end up as worthless garbage. Children were paid low income after hours of brutal work. Child labor was already a main issue in the nation but because of the time of Industrial Revolution the problem might as well be ignored for all the exciting outcomes to appear during the time. One last reason why Industrialization was not worth the cost was because of the many accidental deaths of innocent people. When industrial activity was starting to grow at it’s height 526 men had already lost their lives by work-accidents in Allegheny County.  During 3 months, hospitals of the county had received over 509 men injured in such accidents. Risking human lives was not worth the benefits that were created.

This is why I believe the benefits of new technologies was not worth the cost because of the negative impacts it had on people, business, and society.