Environment

The birth of agriculture occurred about 10,000 years ago and involved the domestication of plants and animals. This is the period when humans were able to move from being hunters and gatherers to building permanent homes and growing (and raising) their own food. Everything was all and good, up until the period from 1830-1840 when the Industrial Revolution would come around. This era mechanized everything.

The invention of the tractor and steam engines made farming a quick and easy task. This also caused the explosion of wealth in some areas. As the need to produce quicker came about, we as humans decided that the earth contained precious treasures that we can use to run the various plants and factories that were popping up. The fossil fuels, coal and oil, greatly made humans highly dependent on dead vegetation and marine organisms of long ago.

The great use of fossil fuels paved the way for urbanization. As more people made money and more people were separated into social classes, cities became zones of clusters of people. One could look at a map, either on paper or in the sky, and be able to pinpoint where the high class, middle class, and low class people resided.

As we continue to use fossil fuels which are damaging to the environment; we began to realize the high threat that the Earth was being put into. We started paying more attention to the emission of greenhouse gases and the effects of it. That is when we stopped thinking from cradle to grave and begin to think and plan cradle to cradle. Moreso because the things that we do now has great consequences of what our children's children will be living in.