Got thinking about the end. As in what happens to all that food we just ate in the end, kind of end.
Well I want to expand on the idea with India's example. With a land mass a third of the continental United States and a population over 1 Billion (by some measures) we can deduce the following -
An average human produces about 1 pound of excreta a day. That is approx 1B pounds of excreta in the whole nation. Since 75% of it is water the dry bacteria loaded content is only about 250 million pounds which is about 100 million kilos in the desi system.
Now think what 100 million kilos or 114 thousand tons of shit per day looks like.
That is the equivalent of six thousand semi tractor trailers full of hard turd lined up per day.
Now you may say I am full of it - but lets not joke here.
Of this about 50% conservatively speaking is not processesed successfully due to poor infrastrcture etc. That means around 3000 truck loads of crap is being channeled into the local ecosystems daily.
Over 30 states make up the country so on rough math basis you have 100 trucks worth of the goop going into the local water and food and air.
Solution - mass incineration of all turd - gather people at local turd drop locations to perform their ablutions and then just torch the whole thing every day. I think that is money well burned.
But alas someone will raise a stink about this.
This autumn the weather gods cooperated as we took a family trip in the northeast to see six states that qualify or makeup what is known colloquially in America as New England. Mass, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island (tiniest state in the union). The outing helped tally up the states we either lived in, visited or have worked in to 47. Guess which three have eluded this intrepid traveling family. Any rate the drive was all in about 1,800 miles and included some memorable geographic wonders or points of interest. Easternmost part of state of Massachusetts being one. Furthest drivable road east in Mass being another. Visit to all Ivy League schools (term harkens to a collegiate athletics conference and generally regarded as elite academic institutes of some repute worldwide) is another random bucket list item of which this trip afforded the chance to knock two more of the list. Dartmouth in Hanover, NH and Brown (and its sister institute the RISD - school f
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