Understanding environmental failure
Environment and climate: a brief socio-history for engineers

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Understanding environmental failure


Environment and climate: a brief socio-history for engineers

Author : Catherine ROBY

Publication date: October 10, 2025 | Lire en français

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4. Understanding environmental failure

4.1 Environmental concerns ignored or denied

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4.1.1 Recurrence of complaints

Since the beginning of Western expansion, a lexical register has been developed to reflect concerns about the consequences of human activities on living environments: nature, the environment, sustainable development, energy transition, digital technology, ecology, etc. As the years and centuries pass, technologies and production processes improve, some nuisances disappear, while others appear or change in nature.

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