Environmental Impacts Of Industrialization, Japan, And Bangladesh

Industrialization occurs when a country transforms from an agricultural society to a society centered on materialism and manufacturing. While industrialization led to economic growth, a booming population and an interconnected world, it also led to environmental damage. When countries become industrialized, they produce more products, and consume more resources. Ultimately, this leads to resource depletion, which causes deforestation and increased carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. Industrialization additionally causes global warming, which leads to natural disasters, due to more extreme weather. While the process of mass production leads to environmental damage, the finished products harm the environment as well. The products created …show more content…
Industrialized countries use and consume resources, such as coal, wood, crops and metals that promote economic growth. Industrialization leads to a higher demand of these resources. Industrialized countries often use much more resources per capita than developing countries. While Japan and Bangladesh have approximately the same population, the average Japanese person consumes 10 times as much as the word’s resources than the average Bangladeshi person (DOC 1). This indicates the stark contrast between usage of resources between industrialized countries and developing countries. Industrialized countries use more resources, straining their ecosystems. This negatively harms the environment in two ways. First, deforestation becomes much more widespread. Since industrialized countries need wood for fuel or need space to place factories, loggers destroy forests. Deforestation affected an estimated 13 million hectares per year between 2000 and 2010. This is detrimental to the environment, as forests are home to millions of animal species, and contributes to climate change. Increased demand of resources additionally leads to an increasingly amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. As countries become industrialized, they produce more and require more fuel. When the fuel burns, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases go into the atmosphere and trap heat. Humans have increased atmospheric CO2 concentration by a third since the Industrial Revolution began. While the impacts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere affect the entire world, the production of greenhouse gases primarily come from industrialized countries. In 1997, industrialized countries per capita emitted 6 times more carbon dioxide than developing countries per capita (DOC 2). However, due to increased population