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Mind Map by Mairead Stone, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Mairead Stone
almost 8 years ago
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Did the Industrial Revolution create a better world?
- Sickness, poverty, disease and deformities
- Materialism
- Slavery
- New scientific innovations create new drugs;
some are addictive and destructive
- Population increase means more
consumption of food, energy and clothing
- This causes factories to produce more
energy and produce (exponential increase)
- This causes factories to produce more
energy and produce (exponential increase)
- Environment
- More machine -> more energy consumption -> more coal
- Habitat destruction leads to the extinction of many species
- Deforestation
- Pollution of non bio-degradable objects. E.g. plastics, metal
- Overfarming
- Global warming and Climate Change
- Increase in human and agricultural waste
- Sudden boom of fossil fuel usage through machines such as steam engines leads to high carbon emissions
- Melting ice caps
- Sinking land, especially islands
- Extreme weather conditions
- uninhabitable environments
- Increase in human and agricultural waste
- More machine -> more energy consumption -> more coal
- Employment
- Child labour
- Less jobs in countryside as people
were replaced by machinery
- Unsafe working conditions
- No job security (person prepared to work more
hours for less pay could take your job)
- Child labour
- Advanced Technology
- Medicine and Disability Services
- Innovation allows people to use high tech in every day
life. E.g. phones, microwaves, etc.
- Easier living conditions
- Air
conditioning
- Access to clean
water
- Electricity for heating, stoves, etc.
- dishwashers and washing machines
- Fresh
produce
- Air
conditioning
- Easier living conditions
- Buildings
- Larger and
sturdier
- Can be built for many different purposes
- Larger and
sturdier
- Medicine and Disability Services
- Working Rights
today
- Minimum age (child labour no longer legal)
- Minimum wage, ensures job security
- Safe working conditions
- Copyright laws
- Minimum age (child labour no longer legal)
- Production increase
- Increased size of
sheep and cows
- Food production increase and became more efficient
- Food production increase and became more efficient
- Coal, iron and steel production
increased, allowing manufacturing
of machines and factories
- Increased size of
sheep and cows
- Population increase (more workers)
- New jobs
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