THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

What environmental effects did the industrial revolution have on our modern society today? Was the industrial revolution a good thing, or was it bad? The Industrial Revolution was one of the greatest and most extraordinary changes in history

INTRODUCTION
started somewhere between the 1700s all the way through to the 1950s.

The Industrial Revolution was a time when hand tools were replaced with power driven machinery, It was an era that started in Great Britain.

KEY QUESTION
What positive & negative short term effects did power tools have on our society and the environment between the 1700s through to the 1950s? Positive increase in machinerynew machinery. better drainage. scientific methods of breeding. experimentation with new crops and systems of crop rotation.

KEY QUESTION CONTINUED..

What positive & negative short term effects did power tools have on our society and the environment between the 1700s through to the 1950s? But not only positive but negative effects as well: Factories created pollution as well as the steam engine. Many people lost their jobs being replaced with machines. People became lazy depending on the machines to do all the work for them.

SUB QUESTION #1
What were the short term positive impacts of the introduction of agriculture during the Industrial Revolution? Farmers were using a crop rotation system that allowed them to leave up to half the land unused . Steam tractors were invented in the early 20'th century but were not widely used.

SUB QUESTION #2
What were the short term negative impacts of the introduction of agriculture during the Industrial Revolution? Machines were taking over.
The population of England rose quickly. Farmers went out of business and kicked off their land because the machinery had taken over there jobs.

SUB QUESTION #3
What were the long term positive impacts of the introduction of agriculture during the Industrial Revolution? The most important positive effect of the Industrial Revolution, mostly in the long term, has been that it has given us all sorts of material goods.

SUB QUESTION #4
What were the long term negative impacts of the introduction of agriculture during the Industrial Revolution?
Production- The more we produce the more of the earths resources we use, production on a larger scale needs energy such as fossil fuel and coal and gas which then emits a gas called greenhouse gas, which effects the worlds climate. This has created one of the worlds greatest issues, global warming. Waste- In every household creates a large amount of rubbish that eventually becomes land fill in the dumps. Recycling has now become a massive issue in our modern society. In Australia we are already in the process of recycling.

CONCLUSION
What positive & negative short term effects did power tools have on our society and the environment between the 1700s through to the 1950s?

In summary the long and short term negative effects have severely injured our society. In conclusion the inventions and machinery the industrial revolution has brought with it had influenced and inspired our world amazingly and was a memorable time in our history.