Sociology: Your Compass for a New World Robert J. Brym and John Lie Wadsworth Group/Thomson Learning © 2003

Chapter 17 Collection Action and Social Movements Supplementary Slides

The Growth of Computing, Mechanical computing devices Electromechanical computers Vacuum tube computers Transistor computers Integrated circuit computers Sources: Bill Gates The Road Ahead (New York: Viking, 1995) p. 32; Ray Kurzweil The Age of Spiritual Machines (New York: Penguin, 1999) pp Calculations per second that can be purchased for $1,000

Passenger Cars Per 1,000 Population by Region, 1997 Source: United Nations “Resource Consumption,” World Resources On the World Wide Web at (22 May 2001).

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 (22 May 2001).

Non-renewable Energy Production As Percent of Energy Production From All Sources, by Region, 1997 Source: United Nations “Energy Production by Source,” World Resources On the World Wide Web at (22 May 2001). Note; Regional data for Sub-Saharan Africa not available.

Green House Gas Emissions, U.S.A., (in Millions of Metric Tons of Carbon Equivalents) Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency “U.S. Emissions Inventory – 2000.” On the World Wide Web at (22 May 2001). Millions of metric tons of carbon equivalents

Number of Technological Disasters, World, Source: The CFDA/CRED International Disaster Database. On the World Wide Web at (7 June 2001).

Number of Fatalities Due to Technological Disasters, World, Source: The CFDA/CRED International Disaster Database. On the World Wide Web at (7 June 2001).

Number of Fatalities Due to Technological Disasters, by Region, Source: The CFDA/CRED International Disaster Database. On the World Wide Web at (7 June 2001).