Response to the Environment and World War:
The Industrial Revolution had a net positive affect on the world, and really helped sustain human life and many advancements sprouted through the Industrial Revolution. However, right after this revolution a War known as World War I broke out. Such a positive period in history and such a negative period in history happen so close together, and the world is always shifting. Not only do the amount of casualties and increase or decrease in population affect the world, but the reasons for those changes. World War I clearly demonstrated a bad relationship between society and the environment, along with all the deaths and injuries. During this war soldiers were required to live in trenches in order to escape their opponents and be secretive. However, along with living in these trenches came lice, disease, deaths, feces, spoiled food, and especially rain water. All of the water built up after several months carried these objects and even humans along with them, and resources of any sort became scarce. The impact of disease and the impact of the environment are two majors things that forever changed/will continue to change the world. There are many things in history that we cannot control, so how do we shape history? We ultimately cannot control how quickly disease spreads and how many people die. We cannot control the environment and the catastrophes that are randomly thrown at us. We cannot control other peoples major decisions and ideas? We do not know who will be born and how they will affect the world. We do not know how the environment is going to react to our treatment of it. We do not know what other disease might suddenly break out, or how many people will die. But we do know that things will always change and we have to prepare for what we can. Just like in a science experiment there is a controlled variable which we can individually and manually control, and there are those other variables which unfold themselves as the experiment continues and as we discover new things. The one thing we can control is ourselves. We can control how much effort we put into something and our motivations to start new ideas. We can control our hygiene and how we choose to interact with people and the environment we live in. We can control ourselves and how we want to make a difference in the world, while we cant control many other things around us...
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