CNN ponders on its future in the toilet, so to speak
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It's not even necessarily a bad idea, but you know how it goes with "revolutionizing green ideas:"
Government throws way too much money at an idea
The rest of the public starts to see that it's too much trouble for its worth, or even worse, the production costs and effects are more damaging than a lifetime of what it's supposed to replace.
Government attempts regulation and mandates anyway.
That's why traditional mixed farmers rotated their fields, so that the cow and pig shit from pasturing would fertilize the crops for the next year or three.
Population explosion destroyed all that.
We still rotate our fields and plough back in all green waste from the production process
Well, not so much population explosion as much as the push for everyone to live in the city in a box. And the idea that farmers were poor idiots. And the rise of the use of chemical fertilizer. All happening at about the same time, pushed by the same people... such a coincidence, I am sure.
And the destruction of vast bird populations, many of whom controlled insects (such as the Eskimo Curlew).
We still have some in Australia - long drop toilets in places that don't have sewer connections and they are inevitably disgusting.
Vox Day famously said that we are headed for a future without indoor plumbing. Naturally, this bleak future is something they are trying to literally sell to us.
Alternative title: How I Learned to Keep Worrying and Love the Outhouse