Technology's Impact on the Environment Quick Check

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After you investigate the effects of technological change on natural resource use, what statement could you make?(1 point)
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Since the mid-eighteenth century, people have gradually transitioned from riding horses to driving automobiles, flying airplanes, and launching rockets to space.
Since the mid-eighteenth century, people have gradually transitioned from riding horses to driving automobiles, flying airplanes, and launching rockets to space.

People have been using iron since the beginning of the Iron Age hundreds of years ago.
People have been using iron since the beginning of the Iron Age hundreds of years ago.

People learned how to use trees to make paper more than 2,000 years ago.
People learned how to use trees to make paper more than 2,000 years ago.

People used to produce electricity by burning coal, but today electricity can be produced using sunlight, running water, wind, and Earth’s internal heat.

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People used to produce electricity by burning coal, but today electricity can be produced using sunlight, running water, wind, and Earth’s internal heat.