Continuing with Chapter 24, it goes over the transformation of the global environment. Number of people were increasing vastly worldwide. As we see an increase in human population, we also see people tapping energy potential of fossil fuels (19th century-coal & 20th century-oil). These energy sources helped transform the environment. People were changing the world in both negative and positive ways. In a negative way, people were polluting the environment, killing many plants and animals, and many more. In a positive way, people were increasing the number animals, bringing/making more technological items & materials to society, and many more. As society was getting more advanced it caused an increase of poor people as well as increase of rich people. People were getting smarter and use this to build more technological products (such as nuclear weapons) that contributed to global warming. The environment was changing in a very bad way where it caused the weather to act abnormally and bringing in health problems to the people worldwide. People were protesting and trying to prevent nuclear energy such as the Green Party. People in South Korea have protested in opposition of nuclear energy, not only in Korea but other countries as well. As we can see from this chapter how the world was changing in good and bad ways.
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