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Stone axes made fine weapons as well as tools for survival. The only difference between the scale and destruction of historical conflicts and modern ones is that weaponry and propaganda have greatly advanced. Indeed our technological progress has very often been funded and developed with military aims in mind; subsequent benefits were just by-products. As a trivial example, few people realize that something as familiar as photochromic sunglasses, which darken in the sun, are a by-product of the result of 24 The Dark Side of Technology attempts to make glasses to stop soldiers being blinded by the flash of nuclear explosions.
This was a modest amount and certainly not in the same league as the ejections from the Yellowstone volcanoes. The 45-mile-diameter Yellowstone National Park is in fact a mega-sized volcanic crater from which there have been regular eruptions on a massive scale. One of the largest of these blackened the atmosphere and left immense surface deposits across vast tracts of land, as it expelled some 2,500 times the material seen from Mount St Helens. This Yellowstone volcano was so Natural Disasters and Civilization 33 phenomenal that it is hard to comprehend, but as a guide this is roughly equivalent to a column of material the height of Mont Blanc that would fill the area around London bounded by the M25 motorway.
A major collapse is highly unlikely, but the sheer scale and novelty of the construction means the design is at the forefront of engineering technology. e. a positive feature), but unexpected and unfavourable long-term effects may appear for any engineering project on this scale. Of the inevitable natural disasters, among the most serious and probable global events are likely to be caused by medium-size volcanic eruptions, not least as there are many of them and eruptions are happening every day somewhere in the world.