Heroin Anyone?

Can we do it better and smarter?

Smith Theory

The Big Oops The GREAT Depression Modern Chemistry Modern Engineering Grand Coulee Planes, Trains and Automobiles

WW II

Massive industrialization Rosie the Riveter Mass production in a major way More new chemistry Chemical Engineering

Post War Bravado

Conquer the world Pent up demand Pent up sex GI Bill Television Romancing the American dream

Production is the Goal

Ozzie and Harriet College explosion New Chemistry New Engineering Elvis

Hippies

Who drives the SUVs? Who lives in the big houses? Who revels in their grand kids? Who are the real culprits? Who has spent decades getting ready for

retirement?

Jared Diamond: Collapse

We couldn’t have planned it better! Montana – the wild places

The Dozen Problems: Diamond

Toxic wastes Forests Soils Water Air Climate change

Biodiversity Pests Population growth Overhunting Overfishing Increased per capita

impact

The Magnitude of The Problems

6.5 billion vs. less than 1 billion Life friendly Temperatures and Toxicities

Jacobs No Long Term Experiments

Norgaard

Sieferle

“Economic growth became the system imperative.”

“If it ends in a dead end, there is a danger, because of its tendency towards globalisation and universalisation, that for the first time in history not only a single society but in principle all of humanity will be affected.”

Need

What does this word mean? Be an economist and THINK The Race to Work Play the radio

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89231809

7:46 Recall 62% of moms are sad

6:27 or 6:28

Time to Play

Break into your teams 1-3 Take the rest of class Define a community Create a list of 12 aspects that define a

successful community Bring list to class next time

Class Break

Jacobs

NOT the theory of THINGS How many of your measures of success

include THINGS? How many of your success measures

MUST be energy intensive?

Duke

1997: every year we burn 422 years of sunshine using fossil fuels

100 tons of biomass=1 gallon of gasoline Let’s repolicy the FED? People can’t pay

their bills

Ethanol papers

The complete corn crop =12% of gasoline Does not replace coal or LNG Does not include deforestation

What is the New Path ?

Nannies Automobiles Babies as Fashion Vacations to travel the globe

Easter Island: Diamond

As he was cutting down the last tree, what did the guy say?Page 114

Story of Stuff

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Issues

TravelTom vs Dean

PlayingX-box vs Scrabble

KidsYeah or nay

What is the new path?

Discuss in your teams Class discussion