Natural Changes During The Industrial Revolution

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The Industrial Revolution was a great time of prosperous values and progression. Though those values came at a cost. A quote according to paragraph 4 by the Environmental Protection Agency states, “In general, climate changes prior to the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s can be explained by natural causes…. and natural changes in greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations.” This quote sparks the idea of how the Industrial Revolution had triggered these man-made causes of heat-trapping emissions of global warming rather than natural causes. Also according to paragraph 8 by the Environmental Protection Agency it states, “since the Industrial Revolution began in 1750, human activities have contributed substantially to climate change by adding carbon