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Bernardo Razzimazi
Italian Doctor
Wrote disease of workers -
Industrial Revolution
Worlds percapita income increase over ten fold
Began in the UK and spread to the rest of the world -
Thomas Malthus
English Scholar
Popularized the economic theory of Rent -
Agricultural Revolution
Spread from Hollandto Europe as well as America
Vast improvement in farm technology (plow, seed drill, reaper) -
General Motors
1923 Start of Ethyl Corp
Began making fuel additives
Olds Mobile, Poniac, Cadillac -
Civilian Conservation Corps
Men ages 17-23
Part of the New Deal -
Dust Bowl
A drought that affected southeastern Colorado, southwest Kansas and the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas
Many farmers lost their jobs and were forced to move -
World war II
Hollocaust
Atomic Bomb -
Chine's Three Gorges Dam
Plans for the Dam began in 1919
Started to limit green house gas emmissions and produced electricity -
Tragedy of the Commons
Garrett Harolins theory
Divided resources evenly -
Rainbow Warrior
Ship sunk at it's lockin Scottland
Bombed by thr French Intellegence -
Cherobyl
Nuclear accident in the Ukraine
There was a fire that set off the bombs -
Exxon Valdez
Spilled 260000-750000 of crude oil
One of the most devestating human caused disasters -
Persian Gulf War
US led the theAirforce to destroy Iraq forces as well as 32 other nations -
"An Incovienient Truth"
A documentary from Al Gore
Recognizing Global Warming as a worldwide problem -
BP Gulf Oil Spill
Occured in the Gulf of Mexico
Happen as a result of a deep water drilling rig