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Hordes of individual redditors bought downtrodden GameStop shares, pushing up the price and putting the squeeze on professional investors at big hedge funds that were betting the shares would sink. Indeed, the band of rebellious redditors – working from the comfort of their own couches – may have altered the way Americans view financial markets. Rather, it looks like so many retail chains suffering the same problems most modern brick-and-mortar stores do – it’s much easier to get their product digitally.īut a group of like-minded folks on the Reddit social media platform called r/WallStreetBets has pushed GameStop into the zeitgeist again, and showed that you don’t need to take to the streets to make social change. The store looks nothing like the public face of a company whose stock price peaked at nearly $350 a share just last month. A couple of masked faces sift through used XBox 360 games, walls of Funko Pops and various video game memorabilia. Strolling into a local GameStop on a frigid Saturday afternoon, you’d be hard pressed to find more than a few customers in the store at once. html 2) http:/com/8/ecological-impact-industrial-revolution/ 3) http:/org/timeline/timeline_industrial.Sponsor Message Become a Flatland sponsor com/TheIndustrialRevolutionandItsImpactonOur Environment. Water pollution, air pollution, and the depletion of the earth’s natural resources are only a few results of the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the environment.īecause of the lack of concern and education on the impacts that this revolution would have on nature and the planet at this time, we are now having to deal with issues like global warming, extinction of certain species, and lack of resources we rely on to live. (McLamb) Although this wasn’t looked at as a great threat to the environment by most, it helped to further deplete the earth’s natural resources, which are essential to life. McLamb) The Industrial Revolution also changed medicine and living standards, which raised life expectancy to an all time high from the 1300’s when the Black Plague reduced the worldwide population by about 75 million people.

“Human population growth is indelibly tied together with increased use of natural and man-made resources, energy, land for growing food and for living, and waste by-products that are disposed of, to decompose, pollute or be recycled”. While this may not necessarily sound like a huge problem, think of all the natural resources that factory production has already depleted and then think about our planet’s dependency on these limited resources to live. Speaking of life, the Industrial Revolution caused a great increase in the worldwide population. Without trees there is no clean air, and without clean air there can be no life. Deforestation ultimately leads to a lack of trees, which help to rid the air and water of the harmful pollutants and carbon emissions that factories put out into the environment.

The dependence on this natural resource during this industrial time period became one of the largest causes of deforestation which not only affects the trees and the forest, but it also affects the wildlife that have made the forest their home. Because of the increase in production that the Industrial Revolution spurred on, easily attainable fuel sources like wood were used in large amounts that had very significant impacts on the environment but were over looked because of the desire to speed up production at any cost. When the earth’s natural resources are depleted, the environment and the wildlife that inhabits it suffer greatly. The environmental damage caused by this revolution was not seen until around the 1800’s, and by that time most of the damage was already irreversible. The main focus of the Industrial Revolution was not to preserve the earth’s natural resources and the surrounding environment, but rather to speed up production so that in demand items were available in abundance and cheaper to the world’s consumers. The Industrial Revolution and Its Effect on Nature When the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain in the 1700’s and later spread to its surrounding countries, the effects that mass production and the ways in which production were fueled were not being looked at from an ecological viewpoint.

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