SCS 1160 Chapter 2: Reading #2 September 22
22 Sep 2016
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An inquiry into the nature and causes of wealth of nations. Woolen coat picking an essential item and talks how complex it truly was. Writing before the industrial revolution about a global economy. When we figured out how to work machines and use it to our advantage. Trying to give us a view of human induced environmental change. Insist there"s something new in the 20th century for the global transformation on the environment because of humans. Intensity to human change: there are unintended byproducts (not seek to do deliberately, we adapt to our current environmental changes. If they change we will be affecting our adaptation. New things we are doing to the ozone nuclear fossil fuels and new forms. 1780 fossil fuels (coal, steam, engines) This era is impact on human action and the author gives examples how we can make it more stable. New framework on how we look at the past.
