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The long-term impact of the Industrial Revolution: page 191 exercises
Exercise 1
Benefits:
- Improvement of living conditions
- Life extension
- Facilitation of work operations
- Possibility of contacts despite spatial distances
Drawbacks:
- Global warming, melting of polar ice
- Extinction of species or risk of extinction of species common before
- Increase of smog and lowering of air quality
- Overpopulation
- Creating inconvenience for the movements
Exercise 2
Industrialization brings long-term benefits (increased length of life, free education, extensive leisure and health services) but also carries serious consequences on the environment.
Industrialization differs from previous periods of economic growth because of the coexistence of two previously separate elements: the increase in population and the improvement of living conditions.
Other key features of the industrial age are traveling intercontinental, the introduction of new plant and animal species, the import and export of goods on a large scale.
By the time the industrialization led to only modest effects on the environment, even in places where it is most pronounced.
However, the impact is going to increase, and the increase will be due to that part of the world's population that enjoys most of the benefits of industrialization.
Exercise 3
Life expectancy: the statistically determined average number of years of life remaining after a specified age for a given group of individuals.
Welfare benefits: something that improves or promotes health, happiness, prosperity, and well-being in general.
Mined fossil flues: places were men dig to find fossil matter that can be burned to create heat or power, such as coal, wood, oil, or gas.
Manufactured goods: profit or advantage that is made from a raw material, as a large-scale operation using machinery.
Consumption: the using up of goods and services.
Global phenomena: any remarkable occurrence that interests all the world.