Labor required to produce goods like cotton, which supplied textile mills in England, grew proportionally. Natural resources conserved by the limits of a low- energy world could be exploited on much larger scales, and the agricultural Global ecology and human society shifted into a new industrial era. In the wake of this union of fuel with machine,
Rapidly over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe and North America.
Their synergy required mutual, enabling innovations between the mining and mechanical sciences, which developed The union of coal with steam engines changed Earth’s most abundant fossil fuel,Ĭoal, powered the dynamos of the Industrial Revolution beginning in
