How Did The Industrial Revolution Affect Singapore

Since the beginning of time, Earth always had a cycle of cooling and heating. Right now, the Earth is going through another heating process. However, this heating stage, now known as global warming, had already begun since the start of the industrial revolution near the end of the 19th century. This revolution caused human activities to produce a lot more concentrated greenhouse gases, more than we have ever produced in our Earth’s history. The industrial revolution is when we first started to use power-driven machineries to create and produce items. However, in order to keep these machines working, energy had to be taken from burning wood and coal. This action caused a huge increase in carbon dioxide, along with other greenhouse gases. Since …show more content…
Singapore is a low-lying island in the tropics, with a relatively dense population. Since Singapore is a low-lying island, it means that the entire Singapore is less than 15 meters above sea level. Singapore has an estimated population of 4.7 million people within its flat coastline, which is 193km long. This means that Singapore has one of the highest population density in the world. Furthermore, Singapore has a high uniform temperature, and a large amount of rainfall, at the same time also in a warm place in which diseases such as dengue fever are common. Given these circumstances, the impacts of global warming can cause the sea levels to rise, thus flooding Singapore, at the same time decrease the scarce water resource that Singapore has even more. Health wise, global warming can make diseases such as dengue to make a new grand appearance. However, our country is already very aware of these weaknesses against the nature. Singapore has already implemented measures to help address or even counter a potential dramatic climate change. To prevent flooding, the Public Utilities Board requires any new reclamation projects to be built to a level that is at least 125 cm above the highest tide level ever recorded. To prevent coastal land loss, the Singapore government has tried to reinforce and strengthen areas to prevent erosion. Natural areas will also be protected using other coastal defense methods. Global warming can also change the patterns of rainfall in Singapore, and affect the water stored in reservoirs in a negative way. This randomness can cause a lot of problems in capacity planning of water resources. But with the NEWater and desalination being introduced, these non-rainfall dependent solutions have bolstered the capacity of our water supply, even when we are facing a prolonged dry season. To counter heat stress, the solutions are to increase the amount of plants