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Tih
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Our Environment is a beautiful place .
Does Industrialisation match with Environmental protection?
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Kerry Burns
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Re: Environment
May 29, 2012
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Good question Tih, my answer would be a resounding "NO!"
I'm a volunteer with a charity called "Tools For Self Reliance," collecting tools and sewing
machines in my locality, which are sent to Africa to groups of people who are setting up some sort
of small business - a blacksmith's workshop, carpentry, vehicle repairs, etc.
Although I feel confident that small groups of people working together can support and encourage
each other, and find a good environment for working out their interpersonal issues, I worry about
one thing -
The way to make money is to employ others, rather than share the work with them, and grow as big as
you can.
To do this successfully, no thought of protecting the environment should have priority over making a
profit.
Making anything makes a mess of one sort or another, and it has to be got rid of as cheaply as
possible, regardless of the consequences further down the line.
The larger the industry, the larger the problem.
Would you like to live in a city having 20 shoemakers, each training an apprentice and supporting
the local economy with their earnings ..... or one with a shoe factory ?
All my life I have made things, and I've come to believe that creativity is important for my
development as a person.
To design, make, and sell to the customer is a whole experience, and to do it successfully takes
all-round ability.
It all has to be learned, often from mistakes. Some of my mistakes are set in stone, others simply
reshaped my knuckles.
Fortunately the satisfaction outweighs the blood sweat and tears, and lasts much longer.
In an industrial setting. I'd be operating a machine, doing a single part of the creative process
repetitively, and consequently not needing to develop at all.
Eventually my senses would be dulled to the extent that our beautiful environment would be largely
wasted on me.
Having done factory work as a young man, I saw the deadness in the eyes of the older guys, and heard
the bitterness in their voices.
I remember chalking the famous quote over the factory entrance "Abandon hope, all ye who enter
here."
So I would say that Industrialisation contaminates both the external and the internal
environments.
Thanks for asking.
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Tih
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hello Kerry
Thanks for sharing your experience...
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Rade Glomazic
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Re: Environment
Aug 8, 2012
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Human activity has drastically altered the natural environment. Humans reduce the size of the
tropical forests that are habitats for diverse organisms. Environmental change caused by global
warming is also one of the factors that increase extinction risk across the world.
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