8/11/2019 Growing Urbanization Can Be a Plus for the Environment - Personal Response

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Growing urbanization can be a plus for the environment, because people who live indense cities drive less, their living spaces use less energy, and they require fewer

resources.

Urbanization was the process of creating large cities from rural communities and ithas already started in the ancient times. In my opinion its results were beneficialfor the communities at that time; the people living there, had prosperous lives, dueto the economic growth, which was the result of mutual cooperation.

However this process was operable only until the industrial revolution, whichresulted in overproduction, and the appearance of electrification. As a consequenceof maintaining factories and manufacturing goods, pollution of air and waters alsostarted at this period. It seems to me that this was the disadvantageousconsequence of urbanization. In my view appearance of dense cities was also adeteriorative result of urbanization, which has its own disastrous consequences fortodays people as well. An example for this can be that in present -day China,concentration of smog in the air is so high that people must wear masks in order to

avoid diseases caused by air pollution. In dense cities, people use more energy aswell, and as the result of large amount of people being in little place, these cities arecrowded and not comfortable at all.

Its another question that nowadays, life without these huge metropolises isunimaginable. Due to the fact that these large cities have the most factories andmanufactures, the economy of the countries is fed by them. Countries have to takepart in the circulation of world market, as recently most of the income of a countryis ensured by its import and export. Moreover, through these factories, workplacesare also provided for the people of the country. Citizens from surrounding villagesoften enter employment in these large cities as in their home place there is not somuch work. As I can see, positive effect of urbanization can be a growth of tourismas well. It can also serve as the income for a country. Eventually, the field of scienceis also encouraged to develop due to the need of new methods to produce goods andbring on the living standards.

All in all, I have observed that urbanization has firstly its disadvantages for examplein the field of air and water pollution, besides it has disastrous consequences forsocial life of people and can result in medical problems for many. On the otherhand, as advantage of urbanization, it ensures the economic prosperity for acountry, it creates the base for tourism, and last but least, it creates jobs. Scientificfield is also encouraged to develop by it.