Advantages And Disadvantages Of Industrialization

The world we live in today has been becoming more industrialized day by day. Along with all these developments that industrialization brings, there are various other problems that come along with it. The most challenging problems that people are facing from industrialization is environmental issues. For instance, the global warming is the most difficult and obvious problem, it is mostly caused from carbon dioxide emission from many factories and cars produce. In other words, as fuel burning facilities produce more and more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the greenhouse gas level in the earth’s atmosphere gradually increases over a time, resulting global temperature to increase due to the fact that the earth does not absorb greenhouse gas.

Hence, the biggest example that people can see others acting against the climate change is the Kyoto protocol. Ultimately, the Kyoto protocol is a treaty that ties countries to limit their CO2 emission to a certain level in order to decrease the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. By setting the emission limit, it will decrease the CO2 production, which will likely slow down the climate change. Although, this protocol may have seemed like it is a perfect treaty that every country could agree on, however not every country agreed on this protocol to limit their CO2 emissions. This is because of many problems, but more specifically due to the fact that different countries vary in their development level, which may be the main cause for why it was extremely difficult to tie many countries from different developmental level in one environmental

And why Montreal protocol was more successful in reaching in an agreement than the Kyoto Protocol. More specifically, the conflict between U.S and developing countries will be my main target for my argument. To clarify this, in 1997 the U.S senate refuses to ratify Kyoto protocol under the Byrd-Hagel resolution as Lutter stated “The Clinton Administration has indicated it will not submit the Kyoto Protocol for ratification by the Senate until there is ‘meaningful participation’ by key developing countries” (Lutter, 2000). The idea behind this is perhaps the intention to have the same participation from every country regardless of their development. However, for developing countries, it is a different scenario, most developing countries are just starting to build factories that will boost their economies. Therefore, if developing countries limit their CO2 emission it will be difficult for those countries to benefit, in terms of economy as Lutter once explained “such forecasts imply that a developing country could face a forty percent probability that it will be worse off by accepting an emissions limit set equal to emissions projected under BAU policies” (Lutter 200). From these factors, we can briefly conclude that in order to have United State’s involvement in the Kyoto protocol, developing countries have to participate in Kyoto protocol as same as industrial countries.