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.
I attempted to read this book by author Chuck Klosterman backward to forward but it started hurting my brain so I decided to stop and do it like any other publication in the English language. Start from page 1 and move to the right. Witty, caustic and thought provoking this is a book you want to read if you believe that the status quo might, just might be wrong. At times bordering on being contrarian about most things around us it tries to zero in on the notion of what makes anything believable and certain in our minds. The fact that there is a fact itself is ironic. Something analogous to the idea that you can never predict the future because there is no future. Many books and movies have tried to play on this concept - best that I recollect (I think I am) was 'The Truman Show'. This book by Klosterman attempts to provoke the reader to at least contemplate that what they think they know may be wrong. He uses examples like concept of gravity, and how it ...
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