Earth and Energy, Power and Pollution: Climate Change Crisis?

Human population growth and wars led humanity to develop novel methods to harvest food and advance manufacturing techniques. This drove increased use of earth's energy forms. The period from 1770 until now is known as the Advent of Mass Production. It was also the Dawn of Pollution, during when the demand and control of crude oil energy and human cupidity overcame discipline and sensibility in resource management. Waste in the forms of smog, foul air, and damage to the atmosphere and enviro...