Environmental problems and benefits of de-industrialization in Detroit - for Edexcel B GCSE

4. Derelict, eye-sore – any other associated environmental problems?

5. Heavy metal contamination of water supplies and
soils due to runoff from abandonded factory sites

6. Red sludge - heavy metal
contaminated mud
deposited after floods

22. 2-ringed plover (kill-deer) – on Ford’s green roof

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28. What other sustainable
use is Detroit ‘ripe’ for?
Think Havana!

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39. Why is Detroit great for this?
• space (why?)
• saves money (lots of unemployed)
• people with time (lots of unemployed)
• obesity issues
• government subsidies (why?)

40. Any barriers / problems to
overcome?
• contamination (there are ways...)
• lethargy / de-motivation etc.
• taste issues? (if been brought up on McDs etc...)
• Wal-mart etc not so keen?

41. Grimsby?!

42. What environmental pros and cons are there simply from
this population decline? (due to deindustrialisation)

43. Deindustrialisation can be positive for the local
environment – eg in Detroit.
But these things are still being made – just
somewhere else (where?) – and with even fewer
environmental controls, generally – global shift
has just changed the location of the factories and
the pollution – not reduced it [more likely
increased it as there is MORE being made (for the
growing middle classes) as well as with fewer
controls] - AND there is the added pollution from
transporting the goods all over the world...