Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
THE IMPACT OF SOCIETY ON THE
ENVIRONMENT
technological development. Primitive peoples, for
example, being few in number, and operating at
low energy levels with only basic tools, did very
little to alter their environment. The
characteristically low natural growth rates of the
Society's ability to cause significant disruption
in the environment is a recent phenomenon,
strongly influenced by demography and
Table 1.2
Energy use, technological development and the environment
Source:
Compiled from data in Biswas (1974), Kleinbach and Salvagin (1986)
