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British Agricultural Revolution
The British Agricultural Revolution describes a period of agricultural development in Britain between the 15th century and the end of the 19th century, which saw an epoch-making increase in agricultural productivity and net output that broke the historical food scarcity cycles. -
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in history; almost every aspect of daily life was influenced in some way. Most notably, average income and population began to exhibit unprecedented sustained growth -
Bernardo Razzimazi
Malthus has become widely known for his theories about population and its increase or decrease in response to various factors. -
General Motors
Based on global sales, General Motors is currently the world's no. 1 automaker. Headquartered at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, GM employs approximately 202,000 people around the world. -
China's Three Gorges Dam
A large dam across the Yangtze River.a dam capable of generating 30 million horsepower (22 GW) was possible downstream of the Three Gorges -
Civilian Conservation Corps
public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 17–23. -
World War II
It involved a vast majority of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. -
Tragedy of the commons
the tragedy of the commons is the depletion of a shared resource by individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each one's self-interest, despite their understanding that depleting the common resource is contrary to their long-term best interests. -
Rainbow Warrior
The Rainbow Warrior, then captained by Peter Willcox, was sabotaged and sunk just before midnight -
Chernobyl disaster
An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere, which spread over much of Western USSR and Europe. -
Exxon Valdez
oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound spilling hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil in Alaska. -
The Persian Gulf War
was a war waged by a UN-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States -
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming via a comprehensive slide show that, by his own estimate made in the film, he has given more than a thousand times. -
BP oil spill
the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry.