#industrial revolution

We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart. ↗

— David R. Brower

#applying #back #began #energy #environment

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. ↗

— Steven Levy

#cusp #dramatic #economic #industrial #industrial revolution

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid. ↗

— Kelly Lynch

#amazing #change #i #industrial #industrial revolution

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#brought #century #conceded #creating #demand

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#ethical #everywhere #great #increasingly #industrial

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#civilization #extraordinary #forward #industrial #industrial revolution

Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#changes #changing #climate #degrees #diminishes

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative. ↗

— Andre Norton

#big #big mistake #creative #feel #hands

In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#britain #enabled #exchanges #factory #industrial

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#asian #developments #dramatic #economic #economies