ASCI 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Svante Arrhenius, Environmental Protection Uk, Environmentalism
12 Oct 2016
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Pollution: when settlements become cities, the most basic problem is how to dispose of urine and excrement while keeping water for personal use (drinking, cleaning/washing, the thames river in london, england, has been severely polluted since early. The working class is the fastest growing class: working in the factories. Working children (hard work,, long hours, physical punishments: the factory system. If you had more than 50 workers, you had a massive factory. The waste from factories was from burning coal. The london fog london"s number of foggy days from all the pollution keeps increasing. Robert smity, acid and rain (1872: first wave britain. 1877: society for the protection of ancient buildings. 1898: coal smoke abatement society: romanticism in science. Emphasis on complexities and power of nature. Warning against the possible excesses of scientists. Edward carpenter (1844-1929: first wave end of the 19th century to wwi. The word ecology is first used in 1866, and began to be studied.
