Chapter 6 - The Great Departure

twentieth century

During the ________, almost 200 million people died as a result of war, revolution, genocide, and other human- caused mass killings.

twentieth century

The ________ saw new waves of industrialisation and its global spread.

Throughout the previous century, entire new industries emerged, profoundly reshaping the industrial world

oil and the vehicle; electricity and the telephone, radio, television, and computers; motors and airplanes, jets, and spacecraft

twentieth century

The _______ saw new waves of industrialization and its global spread.

inventions

These clusters of _____ resulted in consumption habits that necessitated the use of enormous amounts of inexpensive fossil fuels.

greenhouse

The consequences of venting vast amounts of _______ gases into the atmosphere became increasingly recorded in climate change and global warming.