Alumnus, engineer to give campus program on storm water management
Andy Hoak, a hydrogeologist and environmental engineer at Ruggiano Engineering, Inc., St. Albans, VT, was the guest speaker at the Environmental Studies Seminar at Alfred University on Friday, Sept. 19, 2008.
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April 24th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
If synthetic chemical production ceased tomorrow, traces of those chemicals
would continue to react for 250,000 years, or longer – perhaps about twice
as long as the human beings have been able to speak to each other. During
that time, water would be very likely to wash it all out to sea, where it could
all mix together into a potentially toxic milieu for the whole world to bathe in.
Like stirring chocolate into your milk, there’s a big difference in the end
product from being all chunky and being evenly distributed as to how the
resulting liquid will behave. No one and nothing wants oceans that are full of
hairspray canisters, bars of highly scented soap and used motor oil.
The Earth is, for the most part1, a closed system. The magnitude of the time
involved, the number of people and the sheer amount of “stuff” involved
makes the consequences seem like a delayed reaction. It’s not though – just
a very, very big one compared to a single person.
The point is, we can stop putting the dubious chocolate powder in now.