Key point
AUTHOR'S POINT:
In the 19th century, horses polluted the environment through their feces and urine. Horses produce 15 to 35 pounds of feces a day and about a quart of urine. The New York City devised a plan to place all of the feces in 'manure-yards'. The smell caused many flies to be around the area. Those flies caused a threat: they had contain diseases like typhoid. The noise created by horse's iron shoes and the iron-tired wheels of cars and wagons on the cobblestone streets was a continuous irritation to the people in the area of them. Trains started to replace the horse. Then, the car and from then on after it was another blow to the horse. "The horse has become unprofitable. He is too costly to buy and too costly to keep."
Reaction Paragraph
I think that horses are less pollution to the environment than trains and cars. Trains run off of coal which leads to mercury pollution in our waters. This leads to our fish containing mercury that can poison the humans or other fish that eat them afterwards. Cars pollute with CO2 from the exhaust pipe. This CO2 stays in the atmosphere and contributes to global change and the depletion of the ozone layers. I think that places that are seeking remediation of the environment should go back to using less transportation through automobiles and planes and rather use horses, bicycles and/or walking.
So what?
The use of horses have been decreasing and the use of cars and trains that pollute more than horses have been increasing
Says who?
Environmental Literacy Council
What if...?
Cars and trains were never invented? There would be less pollution and a horrible odor in the air around us.
What does this remind me of?
Gaming consoles, it has evolved to the point where old consoles are rare.
- No environmental was as encompassing as produced by the horse in the 19th century
- Severe problem was from horses manure and urine
- horses produced between fifteen and thirty-five pounds of manure a day and about a quart of urine
- NYC Council tried to control the manure in 1818 by loading manure in manure-yards
- The stench was considered a health hazard in the 19th century
- The manure produced large number of flies that can cause diseases like typhoid
- public health officials had largely accepted the bacterial theory of disease and had identified the "queen of the dung-heap" or fly, as a major source
- the noise created by horses' iron shoes and the iron-tired wheels of cars and wagons on cobblestone streets was a constant annoyance
- Urban life was hard on the horse
- Horses were whipped to pull heavy loads
- Mistreated horses died on the streets
- Disposal of dead horses spurred a problem
- Trains replaced horses by 1888. Pollution from streetcars were reduced and moved from a non-point source (horse) to a point source (coal plant)
- The arrival of the automobile dealt another blow to the horse
- Cars became common and horses are not common in the streets anymore
AUTHOR'S POINT:
In the 19th century, horses polluted the environment through their feces and urine. Horses produce 15 to 35 pounds of feces a day and about a quart of urine. The New York City devised a plan to place all of the feces in 'manure-yards'. The smell caused many flies to be around the area. Those flies caused a threat: they had contain diseases like typhoid. The noise created by horse's iron shoes and the iron-tired wheels of cars and wagons on the cobblestone streets was a continuous irritation to the people in the area of them. Trains started to replace the horse. Then, the car and from then on after it was another blow to the horse. "The horse has become unprofitable. He is too costly to buy and too costly to keep."
Reaction Paragraph
I think that horses are less pollution to the environment than trains and cars. Trains run off of coal which leads to mercury pollution in our waters. This leads to our fish containing mercury that can poison the humans or other fish that eat them afterwards. Cars pollute with CO2 from the exhaust pipe. This CO2 stays in the atmosphere and contributes to global change and the depletion of the ozone layers. I think that places that are seeking remediation of the environment should go back to using less transportation through automobiles and planes and rather use horses, bicycles and/or walking.
So what?
The use of horses have been decreasing and the use of cars and trains that pollute more than horses have been increasing
Says who?
Environmental Literacy Council
What if...?
Cars and trains were never invented? There would be less pollution and a horrible odor in the air around us.
What does this remind me of?
Gaming consoles, it has evolved to the point where old consoles are rare.