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
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