{"id":6873,"date":"2017-01-19T07:51:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T07:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6873"},"modified":"2017-01-19T07:51:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T07:51:48","slug":"horse-manure-will-bury-london-9-feet-deep-by-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/01\/19\/horse-manure-will-bury-london-9-feet-deep-by-1950\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse manure will bury London 9 feet deep by 1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was an 1894 headline in The Times, warning of the doom to come. \u00a0It features in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XgBaedsdgXE\">YouTube<\/a> video by the authors of\u00a0<em>Resource Revolution: How to capture the biggest business opportunity in a century<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The horse problem is now hard to conceive. \u00a0Here's a comment from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nofrakkingconsensus.com\/2011\/03\/29\/the-horse-manure-problem\/\">nofrackingconcensus<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Horses are lovely animals, but when crowded into cities they cause a variety of problems. \u00a0The 15 to 30 pounds of manure produced daily by each beast multiplied by the 150,000+ horses in New York city resulted in more than three million pounds of horse manure per day that somehow needed to be disposed of. \u00a0That\u2019s not to mention the daily 40,000 gallons of horse urine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here's what the authors of\u00a0Resource Revolution write:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The chance to meet soaring demand for oil, gas, steel, land, food, water, cement, clean air, and other commodities in a sustainable way by transforming how companies and societies prosper represents nothing less than the biggest business opportunity of the century. \u00a0A combination of information technology, nanoscale materials, and biotech with traditional industrial technology can unleash a step-change in resource productivity and generate enormous new profit pools. \u00a0However, capturing these business opportunities \u2013 and avoiding the disruption they bring \u2013 will require an entirely new approach to management.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don't panic, seems to be the message as it's a bet against human ingenuity. \u00a0I decided not to do that a while back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was an 1894 headline in The Times, warning of the doom to come. \u00a0It features in a YouTube video by the authors of\u00a0Resource Revolution: How to capture the biggest business opportunity in a century. The horse problem is now...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}