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This 10-page paper focuses on the connection between progress and destruction of the environment. Topics discussed in the paper include urban sprawl, both on a regional and international level, and how it impacts the environment and society.
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in history such as reformation and the industrial revolution, the labor force no longer has to be "laboring" for 16 hours a day at a pittance of a salary and
mostly everyone in the United States and even globally benefits from the manufacture and production and consumption of mass-produced goods. In addition,
there are many supporters of "globalization," in other words, the concept in which economic processes (such as banking and marketing) are standardized so they can flow across borders and fit
mainly in any nation. The theory behind globalization is that by standardizing the economic processes, the wealth will be distributed more effectively between wealthy nations and their more poverty-stricken counterparts,
with the wealth flowing down to the people who need it. This is a grand scheme and theory. The problem is, as well see later on, it doesnt always work
(especially in the areas of globalization). There are times during which the idea of "progress" can go too far, and this is
definitely true in the case of environmental problems and nature. For example, though disposable products (such as plastic bottles and paper plates) have made it easier on most of us
for clean-up, the bottles and plates end up becoming trash, which ends up clogging landfills (and filling landfills) and ends up turning our planet into a huge garbage heap.
But perhaps the strongest environmental/progressive issue facing many cities today is that of urban sprawl. On the one hand, such sprawl does, in
a sense, represent "progress" in that it means expansion of cities and suburbs. On the other hand, such sprawl takes its toll on the environment, nature and the land on
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