Economic and Environmental Advantage through Sustainable Real Estate Development - Thesis Example

As human beings were created on earth as the prime form of living specie their actions towards their survival started to affect the earth’s environment. The actions of the human species are collectively known as anthropocentric movements. In its initial days of survival the actions of human beings were environment benign, as they opted to live by initially through hunting, then through grazing, and after that through cultivation. Though all these especially cultivation did put pressure on the environment mainly through the cutting of trees to extract more cultivable lands to support the ever-growing population it was nothing in comparison to what did happen after the industrial revolution.

The industrial revolution initiated an unprecedented level of deforestation towards the clearing of areas for industrial setups and providing more and more wood as fuel to the industries as well as a raw material for industrial, commercial, and residential setups. After the initiation of the industrial revolution miles after miles of land were cleared by cutting trees and buildings either for industries, offices, or residences were set up. Unlike the rural buildings that were mostly made up of materials taken from the environment1; these buildings were made out of concrete and other man-made materials that are far more durable but tended to heat the surrounding environment and initiate other environmental maladies.

The industrial revolution also started migration from villages to towns and cities in search of jobs in industries. Urbanization led to congestion in cities through increased numbers of unzoned buildings, too high of a person-to-room ratio, and to biomass that was far from the permissible level on a given piece of land. Commercialization of agriculture; lead to the shifting of technology from conventional environment-friendly to energy-intensive and chemical-prone farming2.