WSociology: WYour Compass for a New World Robert J. Brym and John Lie Wadsworth Group/Thomson Learning © 2003
Supplementary Slides Chapter 17 Collection Action and Social Movements
Calculations per second that can be purchased for $1, 000 The Growth of Computing, 1900 -1998 10 8 Integrated circuit computers Transistor computers 10 3 Vacuum tube computers Electromechanical computers 10 - 6 Mechanical computing devices Sources: Bill Gates The Road Ahead (New York: Viking, 1995) p. 32; Ray Kurzweil The Age of Spiritual Machines (New York: Penguin, 1999) pp. 22 -4.
Source: United Nations “Resource Consumption, ” World Resources 2000 -2001. On the World Wide Web at http: //www. wri. org/wri/wr-00 -01/pdf/erc 5 n_2000. pdf (22 May 2001). Passenger Cars Per 1, 000 Population by Region, 1997
Annual Rides Per Capita on Public Transportation In Cities of 250, 000+, Europe, Canada, United States, and Australia & New Zealand, 1999 “Public Transport Ridership by Urban Area Size: Europe, Canada, United States, Australia & New Zealand, ” Urban Transport Factbook. On the World Wide Web at http: //www. publicpurpose. com/ut-pcecusanz. htm (22 May 2001).
Source: United Nations “Energy Production by Source, ” World Resources 2000 -2001. On the World Wide Web at http: //www. wri. org/wri/wr-00 -01/pdf/erc 1 n_2000. pdf (22 May 2001). Note; Regional data for Sub-Saharan Africa not available. Non-renewable Energy Production As Percent of Energy Production From All Sources, by Region, 1997
Green House Gas Emissions, U. S. A. , 1990 -98 (in Millions of Metric Tons of Carbon Equivalents) Millions of metric tons of carbon equivalents Source: U. S. Environmental Protection Agency “U. S. Emissions Inventory – 2000. ” On the World Wide Web at http: //www. epa. gov/globalwarming/publications/emissions/us 2000/introduction. pdf (22 May 2001).
Number of Technological Disasters, World, 1900 -99 Source: The CFDA/CRED International Disaster Database. On the World Wide Web at http: //www. cred. be/emdat/images/sumdata/teveyr 1. htm (7 June 2001).
Number of Fatalities Due to Technological Disasters, World, 1900 -99 Source: The CFDA/CRED International Disaster Database. On the World Wide Web at http: //www. cred. be/emdat/images/sumdata/tkilyr 1. htm (7 June 2001).
Number of Fatalities Due to Technological Disasters, by Region, 1900 -99 Source: The CFDA/CRED International Disaster Database. On the World Wide Web at http: //www. cred. be/emdat/intro. html (7 June 2001).
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