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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Robert G. Watts
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
18h 5m
English
CRC Press
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The Fifth Revolution
Robert G. Watts
1.1 Introduction
Certainly, one of the most important events in the long history of mankind’s
development was the mastery of re. In his book, The Next Million Years, Charles
Galton Darwin (1953) suggests that the history of humankind has seen four
occasions when man took a step forward that was essentially irreversible, in
the sense that the progress afforded was never lost. He refers to these as four
revolutions. The rst of these was the discovery of re. It was, of course, not
the discovery of re, but its mastery, that was so important. The use of re for
cooking and warmth, and eventually for the c
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