“The modern world is still trying to understand the many consequences of the Industrial Revolution on the world as a whole.” For the most part, I have come to gather that many us that form the modern world believe that the Industrial revolution was net positive because while pollution and population reached their highest point many, advancements were made along with discoveries after the beginning of this. I would say that this view that most of our modern day population has is a very unavoidable and understandable view but nonetheless, selfish. This view basically says, sure this industrial revolution brought negatives such as pollution and increase in usage of sources, but look at all that we have accomplished because of it also. We have extended our life expectancy, made amazing medical discoveries, and in one sentence, we have improved our lives as a whole population. I describe this as selfish because it takes the view from something that is made up of us. Our advancements…
While selfish has many definitions, I use it in this post to describe our need for survival and view on it and using it. The industrial revolution is a great example. We say it is something mostly positive because it has helped us. Yes, it has helped us, we have made medical advancements, we have increased our life expectancy, we have developed a more efficient way of living, and we have accomplished great things through the usage of machinery that the industrial revolution brought with it.
Survival. Our views on what is mostly good or mostly bad is based on the chances of survival it gives us. Of course the survival of us as a specie is highly dependant on the state of our surrounding environments so this would automatically be included into what it means to survive, right? Well, as it widely known, and as I have come to learn through readings, the Industrial Revolution did not only bring with it positives and a few here and there bads cause by the positives, it brought with it the power to quickly unbalance things. At the rate in which things improve, the possibility of a disaster increases. We have experienced many of these disasters and the reason we have been able to cope with them is because of technology we have had at the time or developed soon after the disaster. This is good, right? Well, it is good for us but not the ecosystem in which it happens. Disasters are defined as bad things with major impacts and consequences. That is exactly what happens every time there is one. But as long as we survive, it’s all good.
This is the mentality that we have developed as a modern world.
We like commodity and we like living with things ready for us to take/buy. We like this new live that the Industrialization brought to us, but does liking something mean it’s net positive? Or does it just mean we don’t really care about the negatives as long as we get what we want?
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