Lecture 9.1 Risks

• Natural versus Manmade disasters - Wedding cake model of crime modified for impact of disasters.
• Old sources of pollution (agriculture, extractive industries, manufacturing end product pollution, animal and human waste). Keep waste moving downstream.
• Biodegradable organic compounds. Enzymes for catalysis versus Synthetic organic compounds without enzymes for catalysis. Better Living Through Chemistry. Not.
• Issac Asimov. High priests of nuclear technology. Half life of radioactive elements longer than the life of any known civilization.
• Production systems generate inequalities. Human ecology of land use versus tradition in placement of dump sites.
• Recycling of garbage versus commercialization and globalization of waste treatment.