SCS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Marshall Berman, High Modernism, Megacity
15 Apr 2016
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John r. mcneill, something new under the sun: an environmental history of the. New york and london: w. w. norton & company, 2001. Mcneill: four basic issues that characterize environmental change in c20: Intensity of environmental change and centrality of humans to it. Most of this change = unintended consequence of social, political, economic, and intellectual preferences and patterns. Our attitudes and practices are adapted to our current environmental conditions: climate, abundance of cheap energy and fresh water, rapid population and economic growth. None of this is easily adaptable if those conditions change. Pre-1750: muscle power (human, animal, also slaves); wind, hydro; wood fuel re heat. Evolution of world gdp, 1500-1992: (indexed to 1990usd): On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors of the latter times of the roman.
