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Accelerating Climate Change--Why Is It Happening?
Edward Simmons
Average rating:4.9Number of reviews:(684)
The half century after World War II was a time of international industrialization that speeded up human impact on the environment and made the world aware of rapid climate change.
Class experience
US Grade 5 - 8
Since the end of World War II, the development of a global economy spread the European and American standard of living, thereby dramatically increasing the environmental consequences of industrial society. The impacts of using fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) along with surging world population and the use of manufactured chemicals like plastics and fertilizer grew at astounding rates, making scientists aware of changes in the atmosphere and oceans that were heating up the Earth. ...
Students will learn important environmental consequences of human actions in world history--from the climate changes caused by hunting large mammals to extinction, then the greater impacts of the transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers and city-dwellers. The technological revolutions in transportation of the 20th century will be featured as an important driver of acceleration of environmental change that is heating up the Earth.
Edward Simmons has an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Vanderbilt University. He teaches American and World History at Georgia Gwinnett College, in Lawrenceville, GA, where he has been instrumental in organizing an annual conference on current environmental issues.
A handout listing and explaining key terms and events to be mentioned in the class.
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Important information will be derived from 3 books by award-winning environmental and world historian J.R. McNeill (Something New Under the Sun, an environmental history of the 20th century; The Great Acceleration, a history since 1945; and The Webs of Humankind, a world history text showing human environmental impact as a constant feature of world history) and The Human Planet by British scientists Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin. Environmental websites and YouTube videos will be recommended for student use to learn more after the class.
Average rating:4.9Number of reviews:(684)
I am a Vanderbilt Ph.D. who has spent a lifetime learning and teaching world history, especially in connection with science, archaeology, Bible studies, and philosophy. Being drafted (Vietnam period) just as I started my college teaching career...
Group Class
$20
per classMeets once
55 min
Completed by 8 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 10-15
3-6 learners per class
