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Maybe That’s Not Such a Good Idea

Maybe That’s Not Such a Good Idea. Or, “We Don’t Do That Anymore” Our Route to Sustainability. Man Must Subdue Nature. Manifest Destiny Get across the continent as fast as we can John Muir – “Blow away”. Kill( er ) Whales?. Whale Oil for Lamps, 1820-1850? Right Whale, Bowhead, Baleen

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Maybe That’s Not Such a Good Idea

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  1. Maybe That’s Not Such a Good Idea Or, “We Don’t Do That Anymore” Our Route to Sustainability

  2. Man Must Subdue Nature • Manifest Destiny • Get across the continent as fast as we can • John Muir – “Blow away”

  3. Kill(er) Whales? • Whale Oil for Lamps, 1820-1850? • Right Whale, Bowhead, Baleen • Liquid wax • Peak Oil: 1845, 18 million gallons • Cost more than camphene • http://www.runet.edu/~wkovarik/misc/blog/8.whaleoil.html

  4. Horses • 1,000 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 1950 • Conference quit after 3 days, not 10 • Feeding: • 1.4 tons of oats, 2.4 tons of hay per year • 5 acres per horse • 15 million acres: West Virginia • Henry Ford saved us?

  5. DDT • dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane • Mosquitoes-malaria • Lice-typhus • Nobel Prize, 1948 • Rachel Carson Silent Spring, 1962 • EDF, 1964 • Banned, 1972

  6. Granny’s Garage, 2005 Malathion? Zineb Chlordane DDT

  7. CFC – Chlorofluorocarbons • Ozone hole

  8. Ozone Hole

  9. CD Long Box • 25-30,000 US record stores • $250m to redsign stores • 5% theft rate • David Byrne

  10. Leaded Gas • 1930s: Octane in 30s • Lead: 87! • Protected Valve seats • Catalytic converter problems • 1996 banned US • $10,000 fine

  11. Ocean Garbage • NYC: • 12 miles: since 1938 • 106 miles: Deepwater Municipal Disposal Site • Sewage Sludge • 1982: quit • Now • Garbage Patches

  12. Acid rain • Sulfur Dioxide SO2 • Nitrogen Oxides NOx • 1990 Clean Air Act • US coal plants

  13. , • Feb 2, 1962 ad in Life magazine • Humble merged with Standard to become Exxon

  14. Percolate?Drycleaning chemical

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