Today, Mr Lundberg had a lesson with us on the effects of urbanisation. We were grouped into groups of five and then we conducted group discussion. We are being monitered by teachers and therefore the quality of our discussion increased.
In my group, we discussed that locating the fertilizer factory complex in Thul will cause soil erosion, infertile soil and plants that are poisoned due to toxic wastes. It will also result in haze and toxic release as well as acid rain, water pollution and oil spill.
There will be negative effects on both the Villagers and the Bombayities. This includes the Villagers being not able to fish and farm due to the polluted water caused by the factories. The Bombayities would also suffer from the lack of jobs, causing more beggars as they could not find a source of income, more crimes committed by people as some of them might be desperate for money when they could not find a job and needed to rob to survive. Lastly there would be overcrowding in Bombay as many villagers wolud go bombay in search for jobs as they could not farm and fish. As they were also not skilled with machines, they could not work in the factories built in their homeland, Thul, so, they are forced to go to bombay.
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