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They reduced shit on the streets and horse carcasses, and increased air pollution. It’s bit disingenuous to conflate pollution as in “horse shit” with pollution
by GW150914 8y ago
They reduced shit on the streets and horse carcasses, and increased air pollution. It’s bit disingenuous to conflate pollution as in “horse shit” with pollution as in “TEL, CO2, NO2, etc.” In fact TEL is a great example of just how deveststing move fast and break things can be.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoThe net harm of pollution was drastically reduced. It's basic sanitation, not even a contest.
- GW150914 8y agoNot getting typhus from a rotting pile of horse is a definite win, but a Pyrrhic victory if we end up trashing the entire planet as a result of global warming. Less horse shit was a boon for sanitation in big cities, but TEL was a bone ride multi-generational disaster, ongoing in some parts. The car solves one problem of big city sanitation and replaced it with slow motion global catastrophe of pollution. Edit: Clarification, TEL is as you said, TetraEthyl Lead.
- carapace 8y agoTEL? ...Tetraethyllead?