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How Did The Industrial Revolution Affect Wildlife

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Likewise, there was also a damaging impact on Britain's wildlife species. For instance, there were two types of moths that lived in Great Britain before the Industrial Revolution,the Typica which is a light color and the Carbonaria which is a dark color. During this time period, dark soot started to cover the trees causing the prior light color bark to turn black. The Carbonaria moth started to blend into the dark trees more easily and they became more abundant in industrial towns. The Typica moth was then easier to spot by birds on the dark colored bark so they had to move to the countryside away from the pollution. Similarly, Before the industrial revolution rivers like the Thames River had an abundance of fish like salmon, but then due …show more content…

It is said that “This rate of extinction is some 1,000 to 10,000 times greater than the natural rate of species extinction (2-10 species per year) before the human agricultural and industrial revolutions.” (Roger Abrantes) This increase of specie extinction exemplifies one of the main negative effects the Industrial Revolution had on Europe. There was a total dip in wildlife species which disrupted the natural food chain and had a greater consequence on the ecosystem as a whole. Ultimately, the complete lack of concern for Europe’s wildlife demonstrates the damaging effects the Industrial Revolution had on the …show more content…

During this time period, there was an increase in diseases and health issues across the majority of Europe. When looking at statistics from the 19th century, over 100,000 infants would die before their first birthday, and a study done in 1850 stated that for every 1,000 children born over 300 die before they turned fifteen. Furthermore, there were three main reasons diseases like cholera spread so easily. Firstly, due to the crowded industrial towns and lack of sewage systems people had no way of properly disposing waste, so they would either dump it in their drinking water, or place it in underground pits that were supposed to be emptied regularly by soil men. However neither of theses methods were effective because the drinking water would become contaminated and the pits would overflow releasing waste into houses and the streets. There was also a lack of medical knowledge at the time and when people were brought to doctors they would use medieval healing methods like using leeches and encouraged vomiting which made symptoms worse. Additionally, doctors als thought that disease was spread through “dirty air” and not germs so they didn't know how to treat or properly prevent the spread of diseases like Cholera, Typhus, which was spread by body lice, and Tuberculosis, which would spread due to malnourishment. Due to these reasons over the course of only two Cholera epidemics over 95,000 people died. Not

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In total, over 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in battle and to disease. While many soldiers anticipated the honorable death of dying on the field, there were twice as many soldiers that died from disease in the camp as that that died in battle. During the 19th century, medicine was relatively primative, and the lack of the germ theory or knowledge of antiseptic resulted in rapid disease spreading. Lack of general resources such as adequate clothes, nutrition, clean water, and santitary stations also contributed to the spread of common diseases like measles, typhoid fever, and malaria. Most commonly, soldiers suffered from diarheia and disentary, which combined with lack of clean water resulted in many cruel deaths.

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Around 50% of people got sick. You had a better chance at getting sick than dying. Then people started to become immune to the sickness and sickness numbers did not rise as high. In

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The primary source I chose for my analysis is “A Most Terrible Plague: Giovanni Boccaccio”. This document focuses on the account of how individuals acted when a plague broke out and hundreds of people were dying every day. This source is written by Giovanni Boccaccio as it is a story told by him and friends as they passed the time. Boccaccio discusses how “the plague had broken out some years before in the Levant, and after passing from place to place, and making incredible havoc along the way, had now reached the west.” Readers of this source can assume there wasn’t much cures and medicinal technology weren’t used much during this time as even their physicians stayed away from the sick because once they got close they would also get sick.

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In Europe not even kings or queens had plumbing let alone the peasants, because of these poor living conditions were garbage and feces were everywhere disease spread more quickly. The poor living conditions were observed by the Japanese when the Portuguese arrived. They are accounted by saying that the Europeans cared nothing for their hygiene, never bathed and were all around disgusting. The arrival of the Europeans created huge epidemics for the natives because of disease that the natives were just not used too and the disgusting living conditions did not help

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With so many people were dying already from the disease grief was high. Medication at the time was no wear near what it is in present times. The health statue of Europe was falling and the large masses of people who were dying began to raise horror in people. To correspond with that many people had little to no knowledge of cleanliness and how it can affect heath.

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Because so many people were forced to live in one common area, the buildings would be inflicted with unsanitary conditions. These included poor plumbing and a lack of running water. Larson referenced the fact that people in the community would dump waste into the city’s water supply, which contributed to the spread of sickness and disease and went untreated because of limited access to healthcare. The city’s insufficient sanitation systems led to diseases like Typhus and Cholera running rampant through the city, infecting many.

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It had greatly increased the economy and revolutionized how products were produced through machinery. In document 13, Britain Iron Production in 1940 was 17,350 tons, but in 1839, it increased to 1,248,781 tons of iron and eventually increased to 9,000,000 tons of iron in 1900 and document 12, cars have been created for faster transportation and wealthiness of the person in the picture. It has shown how the economy has greatly improved after the Industrial Revolution occurred by revolutionizing the machinery works and letting the machine do the hard job, faster and more accurately throughout the process. But flaws were not preventable in the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution had caused an outbreak of population in cities, called urbanization.

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The homes lacked stability or any regard for sanitation, which lead to disease and harm to the dwellers. Document 11 describes the industrial towns as, “[unpaved streets], full of holes, filthy and strewn with refuse” and Document 10 elaborates by stating, “that the annual loss of life from filth and bad ventilation are greater than the loss from death or wounds in any wars”. The poor construction and sanitation stems from the need to quickly build the homes to quickly house the workers. Through urbanization, resulting from the Industrial Revolution, the towns became overpopulated at exhausting rates and only worsened the issues at hand. Had the industry not boomed so quickly, there would have been ample opportunity to ensure safe and clean living conditions, which in turn would have resulted in less death and disease to the

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