Ethnographic Study: Environment: Environmental Changes In The Environment

Ethnographic Study – Environment

The environment has seen and dealt with numerous changes in our society over the years. The environment has suffered through one of the most monumental but extremely damaging times in our history, the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. The world saw a major increase in population during that period, which led to the depletion of natural resources. The use of chemicals and fuel in factories resulted in increased air and water pollution and an increased use of fossil fuels. The industrial revolution caused a huge environmental problem that has surfaced in the last couple of decades, climate change. (Gillaspy, 2017). Climate change occurs due to rise in global warming which occurs due to

This shows that we need improved and additional education about facts and statistics like this. The four people that were aware of this fact must take in interest in our oceans to have known about this circumstance.

 More than half of the contributors to this survey know that there are at least 100 million plastic bottle disposed of a day. This is a frightening statistic but it is a hopeful prospect that people know about this because they could be trying to lessen that number by refilling water bottles more and recycling. Two people thought 500 million plastic bottles were disposed of and another two people thought 10 million were disposed.

 When asked the question “When you think of climate change what comes to minds?” they mostly thought about pollution, fossil fuels, deforestation, waste disposal, droughts, cyclones, rising sea levels and ice melting. This shows that people are aware of the effects of climate change which is incredible and should be commended that people are cultured in that