Maybe That’s Not Such a Good Idea

Or, “We Don’t Do That Anymore”Our Route to Sustainability

Man Must Subdue NatureManifest DestinyGet across the continent as fast as we can

John Muir – “Blow away”

Kill(er) Whales?Whale Oil for Lamps, 1820-

1850?Right Whale, Bowhead, BaleenLiquid wax

Peak Oil: 1845, 18 million gallons

Cost more than camphene

http://www.runet.edu/~wkovarik/misc/blog/8.whaleoil.html

Horses1,000 lb horse:

50 lbs/day, 10 tons/year, quart of urine“Crossing Sweepers”1898 first urban planning conference: horse manure

1894 Times of London: 9ft deep by 1950Conference quit after 3 days, not 10

Feeding:1.4 tons of oats, 2.4 tons of hay per year5 acres per horse15 million acres: West Virginia

Henry Ford saved us?

DDTdichlorodiphenyltri

chloroethane Mosquitoes-

malariaLice-typhusNobel Prize, 1948

Rachel Carson Silent Spring, 1962

EDF, 1964Banned, 1972

Granny’s Garage, 2005

DDTChlordaneMalathion?

Zineb

CFC – ChlorofluorocarbonsOzone hole

Ozone Hole

CD Long Box25-30,000 US record stores$250m to redsign stores5% theft rateDavid Byrne

Leaded Gas1930s: Octane in 30sLead: 87!Protected Valve seats

Catalytic converter problems1996 banned US

$10,000 fine

Ocean GarbageNYC:

12 miles: since 1938106 miles: Deepwater

Municipal Disposal SiteSewage Sludge1982: quit

NowGarbage Patches

Acid rainSulfur Dioxide SO2Nitrogen Oxides

NOx1990 Clean Air ActUS coal plants

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Feb 2, 1962 ad in Life magazineHumble merged with Standard to become

Exxon

Percolate? Drycleaning chemical