Sentences with phrase «of an industrial age powered»

«It is the result of global warming that came from the prosperity and progress of an industrial age powered by fossil fuel.

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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.
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