Would industrialization increase the volume of carbon dioxide in air?
It’s a little late to be asking this now. As in, 200 years late. But we could say that increasing globalization has resulted in greatly increased consumption of fossil fuels and pollution, including carbon dioxide. The massive construction boom in China has cause dramatic price increases for oil, and also for most construction materials, including lumber and metals like copper for the electric wiring. That’s increasing pressure on natural resources as well as increasing pollution. Globalization and free trade have moved entire factories across the ocean. We already had factories here, but entire new factories were built in China to move the business there. Imagine all the energy and pollution that resulted from that construction. Imagine the energy and pollution from shipping finished products back across the ocean year after year to bring the products here to sell them at Wal-mart. Now factories are being moved from China to Vietnam and other places that are opening up for globalized
