How has industrial progress in the United States hurt our natural resources and ecosystems?

Industrialization started as the technology advanced. With industrialization, the effects on the environment is important to keep under consideration. The various chemicals and machines not only make humans work easier but harm the environment. Major impacts of industrialization was the  increasing of population and drastic increase in population after industrialization. Depletion of the natural resources available and making it unuseful. The use of chemicals  in factories resulted in increased air and water pollution making it harmful to human life.