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XVIII CENTURY UNTIL XX CENTURY INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
At this time the environmental crisis became more evident due to the accelerated consumption of resources, and as a result of the above, an increase in the generation of waste per person.- Its economic activities are industry and services.
- Large demographic exploitation in the cities.
- Social organization by States.
- Inequalities between the owners of the companies and the workers.
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1760-1740 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Important events are the technological, socio-economic and cultural. Technological changes: -Use of new materials -New sources of energy -New machinery -New work system, specialization in manpower. -Transport Social and cultural changes:- Urban population growth
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XX CENTURY-GREEN REVOLUTION
The green revolution brought the detachment of humanity's contact with natural resources.
The green revolution meant to internationalize the "successful model" in the First World, by implementing "technological packages" (set of agricultural practices) of an intensive nature. -
XXI CENTURY -TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION
This emerges from the phenomenon called Globalization, in which international trade and the expansion of the scientific advances that define the new 21st century are notorious.
The environmental impacts are shown from the fracture of the social fabric to new forms of communication to excessive consumption that leads to greater use of energy. -
PIGMEOS: SINCE 60,000 YEARS AGO UNTIL NOW
An example of the hunter-gatherer societies is the case of the African pygmies.
This group is located in the jungles of central Africa where hunting and gathering has been their sustenance for millennia.
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8000BC HUNTING AND COLLECTED SOCIETIES-LOW ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Their environmental impact was low, because they only made use of natural resources for subsistence and their population density was low. Also, they were not established for long in specific places, which helped nature to regenerate. -
8000 BC - XVIII CENTURY- AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES
Their economic activities are agriculture and livestock.
- They live in villages or cities and their population is dense.
. They have surplus food, which serves to market.
- There is inequality between those who exercise power (rulers) and those who do not (peasants and artisans).
- Their population is dense.