Industrialization In The 19th Century

The main theme we have been discussing in class was about resources- the biological regime, the industrial revolution, and the big corporates. In particular, great changes and brisk industrialization occurred in the 19th century. As Robert B. Marks explicitly explained, all living things need food for energy to live. Agriculture has allowed people to get natural processes. Agriculture was the main reason people switched from one environment to another, a place where more efficiently directed food energy to people. Marks also makes a point that agriculture does provide food for the entire society, as well as most of the raw materials, such as textiles for clothing. Industries, such as iron and steel, propagated new materials; a couple of examples …show more content…
The way they lived was much different than how we live today, due to the advanced technology and research on how to get the resources we need. Unfortunately, living back then was more difficult, mainly because of the limited resources. Typically, these types of societies, rural, have higher birth rates and higher death rates. These higher death rates are typically towards infants! Infectious disease and limited food supplies were the main cause of the high deaths towards the children born, in the biological regime (Marks, pp. 184). However, as said earlier, with the many death rates, there was a huge birth rate- four to seven births were the norm in the biological regime because they needed children to work in the farms for resources purposes, and to have grandkids, which is also for resources purposes. After World War II, the birth rates stayed the same, however, the death rates decreased as much as half, from the support of World Health Organization, who provided the right resources and medicine for the …show more content…
Nowadays, it seems almost impossible to think of a typical day without using resources. However, big cooperation are destroying the environment and negatively impacting people’s lives. "Over the past four decades, a succession of U.S. petroleum companies including Texaco [Chevron], have cut through Ecuador's Amazon in search of oil. Environmental and human rights defenders claim that Chevron has left behind a trail of environmental destruction, which continues to pose serious threats to survival of Amazon communities” (Piaguaie). Piaguaie continues on with the case by saying, “Our health has been damaged seriously by the contamination caused by Texaco. Many people in our community now have red stains on their skin and others have been vomiting and fainting. Some little children have died because their parents did not know they should not drink the river water.” However, they have the right to profit from the extraction of oil, as long as it does not harm people and the environment, and that the profits are made without abusing the consumers. However, we see that that is not the case, as the people’s health and environment were harmed from