Sentences with phrase «revolution on an unprecedented scale»

«This is not a reform, it's a revolution on an unprecedented scale,» said Dr Fatih Birol, the executive director of the IEA.

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Since the Industrial Revolution, however, we have been burning fossil fuels like coal and oil on an unprecedented scale.

They leave undiscussed the fact that the «shifted power structures» of the first industrial revolution led to, among other things, the subjugation and impoverishment of many non-European nations and peoples, or that the «new jobs» created by the second included tank commander, torpedo officer and air force bombardier, all parts of a transformation which introduced mechanized killing on a wholly unprecedented scale.