describes how technology has shaped society and the environment over the last 200 years. It is the first book to give a comprehensive description of the causes and impacts of technological change. It organizes history into a sequence of technology clusters, each with its distinctive environmental “footprint”. The result is a new, original explanation of change – illustrated with innumerable quantitative examples, data, and graphics – that makes this book required reading for all now looking to technology for environmental solutions: technologists, environmentalists, policy makers, and academics.
    Written for specialists and nonspecialists alike, this book will be useful for researchers and professors, as a textbook for graduate students, for people engaged in long-term policy planning in industry and government, for environmental activists, and for the wider public interested in history, technology, or environmental issues.