ENV222H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Chemical Industry, Joel Mokyr, Linotype Machine

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV222H1
• Professor: Douglas Mac Donald

Document Summary

Lec 14 tech allies with science + consumerism & capitalism (19th century) Chapter 1: consuming: historical and conceptual issues. consumer. Railway - increase speed, lower cost movement of raw materials, products. Ships - transiion wood to steel, increase capacity, lower costs of transportaion. Motor vehicles - societal & environmental impact (roads, habitat fragmentaion), allow spaial expansion of capitalist producion: electricity. New source of energy for factory producion. Changed work hours, increased separaion from nonhuman: communicaion: telegraph, telephone, typewriter, linotype machine allows spaial expansion, step toward globalizaion. Consumerism: a lifestyle by consumpion/ use of product. Env222h1s 2016: invisible & seen as choice/ freedom like capitalism, so not seen as cause of env problem, 19th c. origins emergence of the department store. Previously, only elite could aford consumer products beyond basic essenials. Change in tech & organizaion lower producion price & increased overall societal wealth, allowing for mass consumpion = created department stores.