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Rebirth of the Chamber pot

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Rebirth of the Chamber pot

Unread postby MonteQuest » Thu 21 Oct 2004, 01:07:48

Here's a foretaste of a post-peak-oil world.

No one could have accused the Conservative government of breaking its promise to bring back Victorian values. When, in 1992, it permitted private water companies to install pre-paid meters in Birmingham, the people who couldn't afford to flush their toilets started defecating into pots, which they then emptied out of the windows of their tower blocks.(1) It made one quite nostalgic.


http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle ... temID=6455
A Saudi saying, "My father rode a camel. I drive a car. My son flies a jet-plane. His son will ride a camel."
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Unread postby duff_beer_dragon » Thu 21 Oct 2004, 08:27:16

Don't you guys get compost toilets either?
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Re: Rebirth of the Chamber pot

Unread postby lawnchair » Thu 21 Oct 2004, 12:46:15

MonteQuest wrote:Here's a foretaste of a post-peak-oil world.


Thanks for that one. Here's one book I've liked

http://www.weblife.org/humanure/default.html

But, again, one of those things that works at 15 person/sq.km... not so well at 500.
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