Q.10. How does urbanization pose a threat to environment?

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The following points may help you-

• Urbanisation occurred at the expense of ecology and the environment.
• Due to growing demand for space  for housing ,factories and other institution the natural feature were flattened.
• Urbanisation leads to air ,water and noise pollution due to large quantities of refuse and waste products.
• The huge amount of use of coal in homes and factories in the nineteenth century in England raised the level of pollution.
• In industrial cities like Bradford,Leeds and Manchester ,factory chimneys spewed black smoke into the skies.
• In Calcutta inhabitant inhaled polluted air that is grey smoke as this city was build on marshy land and here the fog combined with smoke to generate black smog.
• The introduction of railways lines in 1835 by the colonial authorities  in India also became the threat to the environment.

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