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To: ExxonPatrolUs
Dry toilets probably aren’t for everybody. “The ‘yuk’ factor is definitely there,” but that reaction is largely a cultural bias, Pabich said.

What sort of culture is this woman espousing?

I rather like the culture that gave me a flush toilet and reliable potable water.

This woman wants "dry toilets" for everybody and expects that all users will assiduously compost their waste in such a way that all microbes will be destroyed. Not a chance. People can't even be expected to stay off the phone or keep from reading a term paper when driving (yeah, I saw this on my way home this evening!) so how can they be expected to take care of their own waste in such a way that it doesn't jeopardize local health? People can't see beyond the backlit screen of the smartphone in front of their noses, you think they care about an amoebic menace lurking in local topsoil courtesy of the human body?

There was a nice paper published about 20 years ago about SF Bay Area groundwater. Think about how groundwater is a real resource. Don't jeopardize it.

38 posted on 12/06/2012 8:16:56 PM PST by thecodont
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To: thecodont

Composting will not necessarily destroy STD’s, prions, cancers, or other human ills.

This woman is suggesting that we put ourselves at risk for various epidemics, for the sake of Mother Gaia.

Sorry Mother, I can’t do that.


89 posted on 12/06/2012 10:29:21 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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