Unthoughtful Industrialization: Unseen and Emergent Risks

Industrialization has caused a revolution in modern lives and society. It has been possible to get an easy life, modern equipment for daily use, modern and easy transportation. It has caused a revolution. although it has been possible to build modern cities and transportation system; earth's ecosystem is destroyed, and natural disaster is increased. In between eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with the advancement of science, commercial production of many chemicals has been started. That created a wave, and new industries were set up one after another. Questions are with the industrialization; consequences which industrialization created and visible now, were they predicted? How were those risks mitigated? This paper tries to give a sample example how full lifecycle of industrialization was built up to produce a harmful product, synthetic fertilizer and discusses the risks evolved from that lifecycle. Although it is not a complete picture, but still an example. In the same way, new inventions are coming every year. That may create opportunities for new type of industrialization. Are emergent risks thought enough from those new inventions and commercialization of those products? This paper tries to identify some emergent risks. One example which is used here is commercialization of robots. This will give a thought to other researchers to focus on other emergent risks in the future. It is expected that, thinking about those emergent risk can help in preparation for unwanted incidents mitigation in the future.

Keywords: Risk, Equipment, Industrialization, Emergent.