From the humanure approach of pooping in a bucket to the rough - and - ready «tree bog» composting toilet, I've posted plenty of low tech DIY options for dealing
with human waste.
Afterall, the air, land and seas are being relentlessly polluted
with human waste products; fresh water, fish stocks, food reserves, fossil fuels, and wetlands are being depleted at an alarming rate; the catastrophic effects of massive over-consumption and unrestrained hoarding of resources can not be sustained much longer by our small, finite, fragile planetary home.
After all, the air, land and seas are being relentlessly polluted
with human waste products; fresh water, fish stocks, food reserves, fossil fuels, and wetlands are being depleted at an alarming rate; the catastrophic effects of massive over-consumption and unrestrained hoarding of resources can not be sustained much longer by our small, finite, fragile planetary home.
As I wrote a few months ago, 2.6 billion people face this problem every day, and more than 1.5 million people, mainly children, die prematurely from exposure to water tainted
with human waste.
Whether it's acting like a complete moron at her old sorority house, or inadvertently bathing in a hot spring filled
with human waste, she somehow makes even the most idiotic and insulting moment sparkle in ways they never could have otherwise.
Secondly, I've heard many rumours that garlic products grown in China are actually fertilised
with human waste.
China has always been quite at home
with human waste, they used it raw on the fields for 4,000 years.
The testimonies from the passengers are truly disgusting: Hallways were flooded
with human waste, there was no A / C or running water, and passengers were left to survive on limited food and water.
Not exact matches
The team's design uses solar energy (captured
with photovoltaic panels) to power an electrochemical reactor that converts water and
human waste into fertilizer and hydrogen.
Traditional dog food starts
with poor quality ingredients (
waste from the
human food industry) and is processed so heavily by extrusion that it is necessary for companies to add synthetic vitamins to sell food as «complete and balanced.»
«Modern
waste to energy recovery facilities that are designed and operated in accordance
with current stringent regulations do not adversely impact
human health or the environment,» asserted Sarah Foster a founding member of Maryland based scientific research and consulting firm, CPF Associates.
Waste to energy technology has been backed as an «affordable» way for municipalities to manage
wastes and generate energy,
with «almost no measurable effect on
human health», according to scientists and industry experts at the recent Energy Recovery Symposium in Toronto, Canada.
Police have charged a New Jersey school superintendent
with relieving himself in public, after school officials reported seeing
human waste near an athletic field on a daily basis.
To maintain its dependency scam, revenue flow, nd unearned privileges and tax dodges, religion tries to force itself into every aspect of life when dying is a time to bask in the glow of loving
human, real relationships... and perhaps make a few apologies... like for
wasting others; time
with ignorant, self - servinge proselytizing.
An allegation can concern embezzlement, pouring out of toxic
waste /
human waste into public waters, building safety code violations, stating that those
with AIDS should accept «god's punishment and simply die», and on and on.
In a statement read in Sunday Masses in the capital, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle said: «We knock on the consciences of those who kill even the helpless, especially those who cover their faces
with bonnets, to stop
wasting human lives.
Charity «encourages the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings
with it... a dead weight of
human waste.»
Genesis affirms the value of
human guidance and transformation of nature in harmony
with the whole of creation, and it rejects our culture «s frequent affirmation of consumption and
waste.
Ah, so much is said about
human want and misery — I seek to understand it, I have also had some acquaintance
with it at close range; so much is said about
wasted lives — but only that man's life is
wasted who lived on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows that he never became eternally and decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, or (what is the same thing) never became aware and in the deepest sense received an impression of the fact that there is a God, and that he, he himself, his self, exists before this God, which gain of infinity is never attained except through despair.
Finally, there is increased anxiety concerning climate change —
with some environmentalists demonising
human beings, consumer - based Western cultures castigating poorer nations for their
waste and pollution, and little attempt to think more profoundly about what a more ecologically - aware approach to our world may demand from such societies.
In the early 1920s, leaders in the Church of England asked one of their own, John Kenneth Mozley, to prepare a report on how theologians were dealing
with the doctrine, particularly as the British were coming to grips
with the implications of massive
human waste in the World War just concluded.
Along
with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution
with its emphasis on chance,
waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law)
with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and
human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.
But — and this is a huge qualifier — if that message of justification by God's undeserved love is preached apart from an unmasking of the actual power relations which have aggravated these feelings to the level of a social neurosis; if people are released from the rat race of upward mobility only privatistically,
with no critique of the economic and social ideology that stimulates such desperate cravings; if people are liberated from a bad sense of themselves without any sense of mission to change the conditions that
waste human beings in such a way, then justification by faith becomes a mystification of the actual power relations, and the Christian gospel is indeed the opiate of the masses.
Authorities said the home reeked of
human waste and evidence of starvation was obvious,
with the oldest sibling weighing less than six stone (37 kg).
Start
with the bloat and
waste in Depts of Education and Health and
Human Services whose combined budgets are much larger than the DoD.
We visited the canecutters» living quarters, smelled the stench of
human waste, watched the prostitutes cavort, stuck our heads into the tiny rooms crowded
with bunk beds, and spoke
with an old man whose foot had been infected for several years.
living a life of delusion is AWESOME until REALITY BIOTCH slaps you in the face and pops the sheltered bubble of the priveledged happy life you live and heaps misery onto you and your loved ones and all you can do / say / think is... god has a plan... yup a plan to make you suffer for a reason you can't understand... from my VAST knowledge of the world and
human nature i know how to make choices that avoid MOST of the misery and suffering the rest of you shlubs endure, can't avoid everything, but instead of
wasting time
with religious b and s i think about avoiding misery and suffering... 35 years and so far sooooooo goooood...
God's forgiveness, we have seen, is creative action for the renewal of
human life
wasted by evil, in full view of the reality of the evil, but
with steady goodwill towards those who have done the evil.
Approximately 26 % or 48.1 megatons of edible
human food in the United States is
wasted at home and at food service establishments,
with fresh fruits and vegetables and fluid milk accounting for 19 % and 18 % of these losses, respectively (76).
If you do your very mothering ability could be called into question
with accusations of feeding your child poison and comparisons of formula to
human waste: «formula has CORN SYRUP, how could you want to give your baby poison?
But diapers that can be flushed down the toilet, such as gDiapers, will biodegrade when treated
with other
human waste.
Find something that is easy to clean and disinfect because most of what you would be doing
with the diaper changing pad involves
human waste.
The Hudson River is currently littered
with everything from
human and animal
waste to motor oil and used condoms.
Like
humans, mice
with cancer experience severe muscle
wasting.
If people are born
with certain drives, if certain ignoble traits, such as violence and selfishness, are innate, then that might make them unchangeable, and attempts at social reform and
human improvement might be proven to be a
waste of time.
Nonetheless, there appears to be a limit on how much protein the
human liver can safely cope
with: Too much overwhelms the liver's
waste - disposal system, leading to protein poisoning — nausea, diarrhea,
wasting, and death.
For centuries
humans have used up the planet's resources, saddled it
with our
waste and simply moved on when a wellspring dried up or the back forty became polluted.
So what can be done
with all this
human waste?
Without modern sanitation, life would be nightmarish —
human and animal
waste would fester on the streets along
with garbage and food scraps, producing a stench so foul that you'd want to keep your windows closed even in the sweltering heat of summer (for the moment, envision lacking the luxury of air conditioning).
«One example of our field work is in Ghana, where we've been working
with Engineers Without Borders, the student chapter at Columbia University, to design and implement novel toilets that can separate out the urine stream and the fecal sludge stream from
human waste.
At home and abroad, animal and
human waste can contaminate both recreational and source waters, carrying
with diseases such as polio, typhoid and cholera.
The intestinal infection caused by toxigenic Vibrio cholerae can rapidly spread when
human waste mixes
with water.
The possibilities include intense competition for food and other resources due to overpopulation; the rise of diseases acquired by living closely
with livestock, other
humans, and their
waste; and increased violence among Neolithic communities.
The
human waste, rife
with iron, would be especially useful if dumped at sites loaded
with cadmium, lead, and arsenic.
Because myostatin normally acts to limit muscle growth, there has been considerable interest in targeting this pathway to attempt to enhance muscle growth in
human patients
with muscle
wasting and muscle degenerative diseases.
Normally considered medical
waste, these tissues can now provide scientists
with a unique resource for understanding the
human brain.
The model suggests that outbreaks are more likely in urban areas
with higher
human and mosquito population densities, in years
with longer growing seasons, when infected travelers arrive early in the growing season, and when tiger mosquitos have fewer non-
human hosts that result in
wasted bites.
In developing countries
with no on - site or centralized sanitation facilities, no opportunity exists for any type of treatment, and
human wastes go directly into surface waters, including the coastal ocean.
As a zero -
waste blogger studying to become an M.D., I'm especially concerned
with how the environment affects our health as
humans.
While there are certainly ways around the above restrictions (for instance, there are ways to properly compost
human «
waste»), newcomers should stick
with the basics until they become composting pros.