Was it Worth it?

I don’t believe that the benefits of new technologies were worth the cost. Communities and wildlife were being affected variously because of these new technologies. Wildlife was effected so atrsosciclouly, that plants animals were killed because the coal miners transferred a certain chemical into streams. When animals and plants would absorb water from the streams there live’s would be put on the line. This incident destroyed ecosystems and killed many plants and animals. In the photograph taken by Detroit Publishing Company (1890-1901) you can see the air consuming smoke which is transferring into the ecosystem and is taking plants and animals lives. Even though these factories are making technology and inventions it’s not fair that these factories are sabotaging the ecosystems and the environment. Plants and  animals should not be treated this way, because without them we would not be here today so, the people then, should have evaluated the situation differently and should have give the plants and animals the respect and appreciation that they deserve. In addition to that, in the poster Making Human Junk the photographer Hine, Lewis Wickes (1913-1914) decided to include that the children had ” No future and low wages” the poster also included that the children lives where “Junk”. This is affecting kids lives and proving that child labor is awful.This is convincing people that when children start to work their whole lives just turn into “Junk” and that they will have no future. Even though technology is so helpful and useful it was not worth the coast of kids lives turning into garbage and kids feeling like they don’t mean anything. Lastly,in the Accident Report it explains that 526 men were killed from the end of June in 1906-and the beginning of July 1907 in Pennsylvania.So many lives were lost during this time period just from people doing their jobs. People lost their lives and family members because of the new technology's. This proves that the benefits of technology's where not worth the coast because hundreds of people died during the industrial revolution and these people were only there to help. It was not fair to the people who worked there butt’s of day in and day out got killed by doing their job. The industrial revolution caused problems in the environment and the society and really messed up people’s lives and that’s why I think the benefits of new technologies were not worth the coast.