The ecological impact of the Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning

point on Earth’s ecology and humans’ relationship with their

environment. As the Industrial Revolution dramatically

changed every aspect of human life and lifestyles — from

human development, health and life longevity, to social

improvements — its human impact on natural resources,

public health, energy usage and sanitation would not begin

to register in the world’s psyche until the early 1960s, some

200 years after its beginnings.

It wasn’t that the Industrial Revolution became a

stalwart juggernaut overnight. It started in the mid-1700s in

Great Britain when machinery began to replace manual labor

and fossil fuels replaced wind, water, and wood primarily for

the manufacture of textiles and the development of iron

making processes. The full impact of the Industrial

Revolution would not begin to be realized until about 100

years later in the 1800s when the use of machines to replace

human labor spread throughout Europe, North America and

the rest of the world. This transformation is referred to as the

industrialization of the world — processes that gave rise to

sweeping increases in production capacity and would affect

all basic human needs including food production, medicine,

housing, and clothing. Not only did society develop the

ability to have more things quicker, it would be able to

develop better things. These industrialization processes

continue today.

Internet: ecology.com (adapted)

The ecological impact of the Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning

point on Earth’s ecology and humans’ relationship with their

environment. As the Industrial Revolution dramatically

changed every aspect of human life and lifestyles — from

human development, health and life longevity, to social

improvements — its human impact on natural resources,

public health, energy usage and sanitation would not begin

to register in the world’s psyche until the early 1960s, some

200 years after its beginnings.

It wasn’t that the Industrial Revolution became a

stalwart juggernaut overnight. It started in the mid-1700s in

Great Britain when machinery began to replace manual labor

and fossil fuels replaced wind, water, and wood primarily for

the manufacture of textiles and the development of iron

making processes. The full impact of the Industrial

Revolution would not begin to be realized until about 100

years later in the 1800s when the use of machines to replace

human labor spread throughout Europe, North America and

the rest of the world. This transformation is referred to as the

industrialization of the world — processes that gave rise to

sweeping increases in production capacity and would affect

all basic human needs including food production, medicine,

housing, and clothing. Not only did society develop the

ability to have more things quicker, it would be able to

develop better things. These industrialization processes

continue today.

Internet: ecology.com (adapted)

The ecological impact of the Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning

point on Earth’s ecology and humans’ relationship with their

environment. As the Industrial Revolution dramatically

changed every aspect of human life and lifestyles — from

human development, health and life longevity, to social

improvements — its human impact on natural resources,

public health, energy usage and sanitation would not begin

to register in the world’s psyche until the early 1960s, some

200 years after its beginnings.

It wasn’t that the Industrial Revolution became a

stalwart juggernaut overnight. It started in the mid-1700s in

Great Britain when machinery began to replace manual labor

and fossil fuels replaced wind, water, and wood primarily for

the manufacture of textiles and the development of iron

making processes. The full impact of the Industrial

Revolution would not begin to be realized until about 100

years later in the 1800s when the use of machines to replace

human labor spread throughout Europe, North America and

the rest of the world. This transformation is referred to as the

industrialization of the world — processes that gave rise to

sweeping increases in production capacity and would affect

all basic human needs including food production, medicine,

housing, and clothing. Not only did society develop the

ability to have more things quicker, it would be able to

develop better things. These industrialization processes

continue today.

Internet: ecology.com (adapted)

The ecological impact of the Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning

point on Earth’s ecology and humans’ relationship with their

environment. As the Industrial Revolution dramatically

changed every aspect of human life and lifestyles — from

human development, health and life longevity, to social

improvements — its human impact on natural resources,

public health, energy usage and sanitation would not begin

to register in the world’s psyche until the early 1960s, some

200 years after its beginnings.

It wasn’t that the Industrial Revolution became a

stalwart juggernaut overnight. It started in the mid-1700s in

Great Britain when machinery began to replace manual labor

and fossil fuels replaced wind, water, and wood primarily for

the manufacture of textiles and the development of iron

making processes. The full impact of the Industrial

Revolution would not begin to be realized until about 100

years later in the 1800s when the use of machines to replace

human labor spread throughout Europe, North America and

the rest of the world. This transformation is referred to as the

industrialization of the world — processes that gave rise to

sweeping increases in production capacity and would affect

all basic human needs including food production, medicine,

housing, and clothing. Not only did society develop the

ability to have more things quicker, it would be able to

develop better things. These industrialization processes

continue today.

Internet: ecology.com (adapted)

The ecological impact of the Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning

point on Earth’s ecology and humans’ relationship with their

environment. As the Industrial Revolution dramatically

changed every aspect of human life and lifestyles — from

human development, health and life longevity, to social

improvements — its human impact on natural resources,

public health, energy usage and sanitation would not begin

to register in the world’s psyche until the early 1960s, some

200 years after its beginnings.

It wasn’t that the Industrial Revolution became a

stalwart juggernaut overnight. It started in the mid-1700s in

Great Britain when machinery began to replace manual labor

and fossil fuels replaced wind, water, and wood primarily for

the manufacture of textiles and the development of iron

making processes. The full impact of the Industrial

Revolution would not begin to be realized until about 100

years later in the 1800s when the use of machines to replace

human labor spread throughout Europe, North America and

the rest of the world. This transformation is referred to as the

industrialization of the world — processes that gave rise to

sweeping increases in production capacity and would affect

all basic human needs including food production, medicine,

housing, and clothing. Not only did society develop the

ability to have more things quicker, it would be able to

develop better things. These industrialization processes

continue today.

Internet: ecology.com (adapted)

The ecological impact of the Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning

point on Earth’s ecology and humans’ relationship with their

environment. As the Industrial Revolution dramatically

changed every aspect of human life and lifestyles — from

human development, health and life longevity, to social

improvements — its human impact on natural resources,

public health, energy usage and sanitation would not begin

to register in the world’s psyche until the early 1960s, some

200 years after its beginnings.

It wasn’t that the Industrial Revolution became a

stalwart juggernaut overnight. It started in the mid-1700s in

Great Britain when machinery began to replace manual labor

and fossil fuels replaced wind, water, and wood primarily for

the manufacture of textiles and the development of iron

making processes. The full impact of the Industrial

Revolution would not begin to be realized until about 100

years later in the 1800s when the use of machines to replace

human labor spread throughout Europe, North America and

the rest of the world. This transformation is referred to as the

industrialization of the world — processes that gave rise to

sweeping increases in production capacity and would affect

all basic human needs including food production, medicine,

housing, and clothing. Not only did society develop the

ability to have more things quicker, it would be able to

develop better things. These industrialization processes

continue today.

Internet: ecology.com (adapted)

The ecological impact of the Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning

point on Earth’s ecology and humans’ relationship with their

environment. As the Industrial Revolution dramatically

changed every aspect of human life and lifestyles — from

human development, health and life longevity, to social

improvements — its human impact on natural resources,

public health, energy usage and sanitation would not begin

to register in the world’s psyche until the early 1960s, some

200 years after its beginnings.

It wasn’t that the Industrial Revolution became a

stalwart juggernaut overnight. It started in the mid-1700s in

Great Britain when machinery began to replace manual labor

and fossil fuels replaced wind, water, and wood primarily for

the manufacture of textiles and the development of iron

making processes. The full impact of the Industrial

Revolution would not begin to be realized until about 100

years later in the 1800s when the use of machines to replace

human labor spread throughout Europe, North America and

the rest of the world. This transformation is referred to as the

industrialization of the world — processes that gave rise to

sweeping increases in production capacity and would affect

all basic human needs including food production, medicine,

housing, and clothing. Not only did society develop the

ability to have more things quicker, it would be able to

develop better things. These industrialization processes

continue today.

Internet: ecology.com (adapted)

The ecological impact of the Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning

point on Earth’s ecology and humans’ relationship with their

environment. As the Industrial Revolution dramatically

changed every aspect of human life and lifestyles — from

human development, health and life longevity, to social

improvements — its human impact on natural resources,

public health, energy usage and sanitation would not begin

to register in the world’s psyche until the early 1960s, some

200 years after its beginnings.

It wasn’t that the Industrial Revolution became a

stalwart juggernaut overnight. It started in the mid-1700s in

Great Britain when machinery began to replace manual labor

and fossil fuels replaced wind, water, and wood primarily for

the manufacture of textiles and the development of iron

making processes. The full impact of the Industrial

Revolution would not begin to be realized until about 100

years later in the 1800s when the use of machines to replace

human labor spread throughout Europe, North America and

the rest of the world. This transformation is referred to as the

industrialization of the world — processes that gave rise to

sweeping increases in production capacity and would affect

all basic human needs including food production, medicine,

housing, and clothing. Not only did society develop the

ability to have more things quicker, it would be able to

develop better things. These industrialization processes

continue today.

Internet: ecology.com (adapted)

The ecological impact of the Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning

point on Earth’s ecology and humans’ relationship with their

environment. As the Industrial Revolution dramatically

changed every aspect of human life and lifestyles — from

human development, health and life longevity, to social

improvements — its human impact on natural resources,

public health, energy usage and sanitation would not begin

to register in the world’s psyche until the early 1960s, some

200 years after its beginnings.

It wasn’t that the Industrial Revolution became a

stalwart juggernaut overnight. It started in the mid-1700s in

Great Britain when machinery began to replace manual labor

and fossil fuels replaced wind, water, and wood primarily for

the manufacture of textiles and the development of iron

making processes. The full impact of the Industrial

Revolution would not begin to be realized until about 100

years later in the 1800s when the use of machines to replace

human labor spread throughout Europe, North America and

the rest of the world. This transformation is referred to as the

industrialization of the world — processes that gave rise to

sweeping increases in production capacity and would affect

all basic human needs including food production, medicine,

housing, and clothing. Not only did society develop the

ability to have more things quicker, it would be able to

develop better things. These industrialization processes

continue today.

Internet: ecology.com (adapted)

Gauchos of Argentina, Uruguay and Southern Brazil

Wherever you have cattle, and cattle ranches, you

have people on horseback tending to them. They’re called by

many names: cowboy in the US; gaucho in Argentina,

Uruguay and southern Brazil; vaqueiro in northern Brazil;

huaso in Chile and llanero in Colombia and Venezuela.

In the great wide plains areas, called pampas, of

Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil, cattle raising is a

primary way of life.

The men who work the cattle are called gauchos,

from the Quechua huachu, which means orphan or vagabond.

Spanish settlers distinguished the two by calling orphans

gauchos and vagabonds gauchos, but over time the usage

melded into gaucho.

Much has been written, fact and fiction, about the

legendary Gauchos, the wanderers of the Pampas. The early

horsemen were skilled horsemen, loners, scrabbling out a life

on the sun-baked pampas, living off the land and tracking

down lost cattle for ranchers, their patrones for whom they

also provided protection, and in times of battle, military

service.

Their nomadic life meant little time spent at home,

which they might have shared with a common-law wife who

raised their children. Sons followed their father’s traditions.

Their clothing reflected their life on horseback: a wide hat,

a woolen poncho, long pleated trousers, or loose baggy pants

called bombachas and knee-high leather boots. They made

their boots by wrapping the hide of a freshly killed calf

around their legs and feet. As the hide dried, it took on the

form of the foot and leg. They owned nothing of value but

their horse and the long knife, the facón that they kept sharp,

and handy. The facón and the boleadora, stones bound in

leather strips and used as a lariat to trip cattle or other

animals by looping it around their legs.

They had no way of preserving meat, and after

butchering a cow, would cook it immediately over an open

fire. This was the beginning of the asado, still popular today.

Meat and mate were the mainstays of their diets and the

brewing and consumption of this herb called yerba mate was

a several times a day ritual.

Internet: gosouthamerica.about.com (adapted)