Was Industrialization Worth The Terrible Costs?

I strongly do not believe that industrialization was worth the costs. There were many terrible costs of industrialization. In particular, the article “Polluting the Environment” informs readers of how ecosystems and cities lost many innocent lives from just industrialization. In the second paragraph of “Polluting the Environment,” the article tells us that iron sulfates were produced by chemicals from coal mining, which were the cause of death of plants and animals in the surrounding areas. In cities with poor sanitation, typhoid fever and other diseases spread throughout the city due to sewage entering the water supply. So far, we’ve learned that industrialization killed animals and spread dangerous diseases. The report “The Pittsburgh Survey,” by Crystal Eastman, includes facts and numbers on the impact of industrialization and how it took too many lives of men from work-accidents. It states that 526 men were killed in work-accidents from July 1, 1906-June 30, 1907. The text proves that industrialization was the cause of one too many deaths. To add on to that, Making Human Junk was a poster made by Lewis Hines (1912-1914) about the process of turning children into “junk.” Making Human Junk informs others on how industrialization has stripped the chance of freedom and education from children and ruined their future. It ruins their future because during the time they spent in the factory working is time taken away from being in school. When they grow older they won’t have a basic understanding of anything except factory work, which would be useless to them because you don’t make much money from working in a factory. So to conclude, industrialization wasn’t worth the cost because the amount of lives lost, the diseases spread, and the children who were forced into child labor.