Chapter 17

In this reading I learned about the Industrial Revolution.The Industrial Revolution is an era where the natural and reusable uses of labor like water, the power of animals, the labor of people, wood and wind were replaced for with things like oil, coal, natural gasses and fossil fuels. When I was reading this in this chapter it kind of baffled me because I thought that it was sort of ironic that back then we were using all of these healthier ways to have energy and then we switched to all of these more unhealthier ways thinking that we were progressing into something better. When know we are trying to go back to in our current time period like to the wind, and water as a source of energy to become more heathy. Many parts of the area were changed drastically due to this new way of acquiring energy. This would also have a huge impact on the environment. Another piece of information that I learned form this reading was that about 52 million pounds of were used in 1800 by the British textile industry. Also 588 million pounds were devoured in 1850. Lastly a whole century later Britain's yield of coal increased rapidly to 68.4 million tons from the amount of 5.23 million tons in 1750.

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