Pollution from industry can only be the result of the human mind and human emotions. Without these two things there would be no industrial activity and therefore no pollution from industry. Before jumping to conclusions though it should be noted that most of the things that make our lives comfortable are products of manufacturing. Pollutants are bye-products.
Industrialization began in the eighteenth century but only reached insane levels during the cold war period after the Second World War. This was when political dictators vied for industrial domination. In China, Mao Tse Tung ordered the destruction of insects and birds so that they could not interfere with industrial progress. In Russia the frenetic erection of sub-standard industrial complexes endangered the political system it sought to promote.
Scant attention was paid to environmental consequences because the belief was that man could control everything with the aid of 'science'. The consequences of this philosophy are being felt to-day and will most probably persist far into the future.
Before the collapse of the Soviet Empire Sumqayit was an industrial complex of more than forty factories producing industrial and agricultural chemical. As a result of contamination by heavy metals, oil and chemicals cancer rates are now higher than anywhere else. The chemical contamination has seeped into the soils and into water supplies.
The nuclear fall-out at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, was another product of Russian industrialization and the inhabitants Dzerzhinsk, also in Russia, have the lowest life-expectancy rate in the world because they suffer from various cancers caused by heavy metals such as mercury and by chemicals.
Cities like Kabwe, in Zambia, and La Oraya, in Peru are also heavily polluted with lead. This heavy metal is said to have brought down the Roman Empire because it was in the water supplied to Romans in lead pipes. The mines operated by American and British owned companies implicate these countries as well. When Americans attempt to blame British owned BP for oils spills it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
In China and India there are very serious cases of water and air pollution, especially near the industrial belts of these burgeoning economies. Heavy metals contaminate the water and carbon emissions pollute the air. Pollution from industry, it appears, infests the whole world. However, when it is remembered that the industrial centres are all designed, implemented and controlled by human beings it can be argued that it is not industry but human minds and emotions that are the ultimate pollutants.
Industrialization began in the eighteenth century but only reached insane levels during the cold war period after the Second World War. This was when political dictators vied for industrial domination. In China, Mao Tse Tung ordered the destruction of insects and birds so that they could not interfere with industrial progress. In Russia the frenetic erection of sub-standard industrial complexes endangered the political system it sought to promote.
Scant attention was paid to environmental consequences because the belief was that man could control everything with the aid of 'science'. The consequences of this philosophy are being felt to-day and will most probably persist far into the future.
Before the collapse of the Soviet Empire Sumqayit was an industrial complex of more than forty factories producing industrial and agricultural chemical. As a result of contamination by heavy metals, oil and chemicals cancer rates are now higher than anywhere else. The chemical contamination has seeped into the soils and into water supplies.
The nuclear fall-out at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, was another product of Russian industrialization and the inhabitants Dzerzhinsk, also in Russia, have the lowest life-expectancy rate in the world because they suffer from various cancers caused by heavy metals such as mercury and by chemicals.
Cities like Kabwe, in Zambia, and La Oraya, in Peru are also heavily polluted with lead. This heavy metal is said to have brought down the Roman Empire because it was in the water supplied to Romans in lead pipes. The mines operated by American and British owned companies implicate these countries as well. When Americans attempt to blame British owned BP for oils spills it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
In China and India there are very serious cases of water and air pollution, especially near the industrial belts of these burgeoning economies. Heavy metals contaminate the water and carbon emissions pollute the air. Pollution from industry, it appears, infests the whole world. However, when it is remembered that the industrial centres are all designed, implemented and controlled by human beings it can be argued that it is not industry but human minds and emotions that are the ultimate pollutants.
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