Does industrialization leads to destructions in environment?

Question

If yes. How? (in detail)

Answer 1

Not necessarily, if property rights are well defined and enforced, the environment should do OK. Also as countries become richer their environments become better, because when people don't have to worry about such things as getting food on the table, and a roof over their families heads, they will start to be concerned about other less important problems such as the environment. I have listed a great source where you can find lots of info from well respected researchers on this topic.

Answer 2

People farming destroyed the natural environment long before industrialization. They destroyed the forest that use to cover Europe, and the grasslands in the US, and created the salt marshes of Iraq and many other examples from around the world. Even now domestic cattle are a major source of greenhouse gases and farm animals in general a major source of water pollution. Since we don't want to return to a hunter gatherer life style all we can do is try minimize the damage. The destruction from industry tends to be more localized except for air pollution and greenhouse gases so that is were the focus should be.

Answer 3

Industrialization is basically a revolution that is inevitable. In major developed countries, industrialization became the backbone for them to support the massive growth of population and to ensure the countries' economic status is well and sound. Industrialization has occured since the early 17th century. During the time of lassier faire, industrialization brought supreme economic growth and has able to initiate modernization and better lifestyle for the society.
Thus industrialization is playing a very crucial role in a country's development. Though is undeniable, that during the course of making things happen, many unfortunate events have taken place. Its because at the early stage of industrialization, most people was not aware of the sudden change to their surrounding especially the environment. It was till late 19th century that reports started emerging showing the breakdown adn the drastic depletion of the environment satndards. It was also because of human's greed that lead to this destruction of environment. There was way too much of leniency towards hunters and there were less animal activists as well as environmentalist to ensure that the forest and its being were not harm in any way.
But as time goes, people became fairly aware that uncontrollable industrialization could lead to a great downfall of mankind. for our primary substance in the food chain has been sorely affected. Therefore, in recent times, there are huge NGOs standing and voicing their concern for the environment.
As it is, we could not undo the wrong in the past but we are stil able to correct the future so long we take the proper steps to ensure that industrialization, even though it's crucial to the development, but there should be a balancing trait to it in order to protect what's left of mother nature.