COAL 199-248!!!!!!!! LAST BOOK POST!

SO IT IS FINALLY THE END!!!!

The author has gone into great detail about coal's history.
AND IT HAS HAD A LONGGGG HISTORY.
But by looking at the past you see all the changes that has had happened.
Such as all the uses they have had for it and the myths people believed
of coal's effects.

But i feel like the books purpose was to yes, tell you the history of coal, but also to leave you thinking about where is going to go next. Such as what can we use this valuable resource to benefit our lives without having damaging side effects? Or even if we should just leave this fossil fuel alone before it turns into a slowly depleting resource?

COAL 129-198!!!

This was a really good section that i read.

*I wanted to share for fun that I found out that the railroads on the monopoly game like the reading are actually were real coal railroads.

Many people back then had come to many assumptiones about brning coal and its effect such as:

-coal actually purified the air because it passed through the carbon and into the blood

-the smoke promoted moral depravity

- increase in being irritable

-women would whip there children

But I felt like many people would have felt less joyfull if they werent exposed to as much sun and their was this big gloomy feling in the air. I know I would have. But I wouldnt go as far as to say women would whip there children over this. But of course I wasnt there.

In 1886 the 3 biggest killers in Cincinnati were

-tuberculosis

-pneumonia

-bronchitis

All of which could have been caused and very likely by the burning of coal and many other ways caused by coal.

But the effects that was occuring almost made me cry. I didnt know that innicent children could be at risk for a bone softening disease rickets mainly due to a lack of sunlight. Causing their legs to stick out like the child below.

NEWS ARTICLE 1: TURTLES

I read an article called "Ruling on Longline Fishing Aids Turtles". This article was a great example of how people can avoid tragedy of the commons by speaking up for the ones who can't and compromising. It was talking about how longline fishermen would sometimes catch turtles instead of fish in this process and how many would die because of lack of oxygen. So they came to an agrement with the environmentalist groups and they agred that the fishmen are to limit their use of longline fishing. It dosent go into details by how much but something is better then nothing.











http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/science/earth/19turtle.html?_r=1&ref=earth