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related: anthropocene epoch modern age
The Electro-Chemical Age refers to the point in history when electricity and chemicals constitute the tools of humanity. The ECA began during the 19th century, ceremoniously it begins on May 1, 1851, the date that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert opened the Great Exhibition known as Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London, England. The ECA is the outcome of the Industrial Revolution and is the Age in which we live today.
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age is the name given to the present period, identifying the two major
and competing science branches which emerged during the 1800s. The
ECA comes after the Age of Iron and after the Age of Enlightenment. The
ECA has very important geological meaning, as does the Anthropocene Epoch,
which foretells the mark of humanity upon the earth with greenhouse gas
emissions, and various types of pollution from noise pollution to
hazardous radioactive waste.
The war on drugs is social pollution in the ECA. It is a mistaken backlash, i |
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Crystal Palace symbolized the Industrial Revolution and the journey into a
new Age and Epoch. Even though no one realized the importance of this
event at that time, it gives us an actual date, that logically falls
within the period when humans left the Iron Age and embarked on the
Electro-Chemical Age..