ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

ENVIRONMENTAL
POLLUTION
Some decades ago, before the industrial revolution, was a time when the air was fresh, the rivers fit to drink, the grass was greener, and the sky more blue. People didn’t realize how lucky they were to have clean air to breathe, and to have an environment free of pollution. Little did they know that within a few decades, clean air would be a topic people would talk about as if it were something that didn’t exist. As industries were slowly built, people started inventing things to make their lives easier. What they didn’t realize was that the things they were inventing, such as cars, were going to contribute to the destruction of the earth.
One ironic example, given about the effects of industrialization on pollution, is the introduction of the vacuum cleaner. Before the vacuum cleaner was invented, house wives would have to clean the whole house by hand, which would take a long time. Then one wife bought a vacuum cleaner and started clea...