{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/61edee905320a20013e6c4d0?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"554: Sea walls won't protect us from our garbage. Stopping polluting gives us our best chance.","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/1642983032611-bf1757c638925b492fb3c322cb61ecb7.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>My notes that I read from for this episode:</p><ul><li>Sea wall for Manhattan, like Holland: expensive, huge, likely won't work</li><li>Controversial already. Natural solutions might work better.</li><li>Let's say they worked.</li><li>On Staten Island, Fresh Kills</li><li>Also everywhere, all coasts unprotected</li><li>Now think of Cancer Alley Gulf coast, oil refineries and global toxic dumps</li><li>All that pollution will be dispersed to seas and biosphere</li><li>I'd guess hundreds of thousands of years</li><li>Think of the suffering</li><li>Challenge is more than energy. Also thermodynamics. Everything will disperse.</li><li>Best solution: stop using fossil fuels now.</li><li>Yes, we'll face problems, but we'll solve switching problems more easily than global garbage.</li><li>Not an option: keep going as we are and maybe the problems won't happen.</li></ul>","author_name":"Joshua Spodek: Author, Speaker, Professor"}