Question

In this lesson, we discussed the Black Triangle and the effect of industrialization on Europe's environment. How can industrialization harm the environment? In a short paragraph, describe two environmental issues related to industrialization.

Answer 1

(Students’ responses may address issues like acid rain, air pollution, deforestation, or contamination. Students should choose two issues to address. Their answers should explain these problems and note why they are related to industrialization in Europe. For example, when discussing pollution, students may write about the Black Triangle. In Central and Eastern Europe, where heavy industrialization took place, air pollution referred to as the “black cloud” has been created by factories and lenient industry regulations.)

Answer 2

Industrialization effects the environment because people are constantly cutting down trees and not replanting a new one in its place, so this causes trees to transfer to a renewable recourses to a non renewable. One environmental issue it causes it that it makes animals have to find better places to live away from the city life and when they don't the animals end up coming into the city and disturbing the life we know now. A village in Africa actually has to share their homes and stores with monkeys because the monkeys have no where else to live so they eventually came into the city and made homes there. The environment is also being destroyed because when you pull a plant of tree out of the ground the wind starts to blow and there is nothing to hold the dirt in place any more so things like dust storms and drying out the nutrients in the ground can also occur. That was a huge cause of the Dust Bowl.
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