«It is the result of global warming that came from the prosperity and progress
of an industrial age powered by fossil fuel.
Not exact matches
Asked about the adequacy
of the scale
of any these initiatives, Barton's answers often start with variations on his favoured metaphor
of the flywheel — the
industrial -
age image
of a heavy wheel used to build
power on a revolving shaft.
Its complicity in the
power obsession
of an
industrial age and the resultant pollution is already widely acknowledged.
By their estimations, coal - fired
power plants coming online since the turn
of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn
of the
industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.
Acted by locals with authentic conviction, the dialogue ringing idiomatic and magical, and full
of respect for the
power and majesty
of nature, Sayles» film elaborated the artistry
of cultural identity amid the vicissitudes
of an
industrial age.
Widely copied in Europe and America in the 20s, this iconic image
of a machine -
age utopia celebrated the
power of industrial production in the modern
age.
An important figure in early 20th century American art, the painter and photographer Charles Sheeler was - along with Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935)- the leading exponent
of Precisionism, a style
of architectural painting that combined the hi - tech aesthetics
of Futurism with the sharp geometrics
of Analytical Cubism in the depiction
of factories,
power stations, warehouses and other
industrial plant,
of the new technological
age.