Posted by alexandra_k on August 15, 2018, at 3:18:25
In reply to Re: born, never asked, posted by sigismund on August 14, 2018, at 15:12:53
cholera is usually about human or animal sh*t contaminating drinking water.
because you have an explosion in population (e.g., urbanisation) or because of disruption to the sewerage system, or something like that.
i read a paper fairly recently about some or other disease that was more exotic. one of the 'tropical diseases' that rich American med student tourists or whatever want to go do 'helping you' stuff to get to see... and turns out most of that exotic sh*t spreads much the same way all the other sh*t does... literally... sh*t contaminating the drinking water. because people in Fiji, etc don't have flush toilets / sewerage system. It goes to a drum, or whatever, and the drum corrodes, and the contents leak. The contents leak into the fields that are being farmed for lettuce, or whatever.
There is a lot we can do...
Those plastic f*ck*ng drums that will be here a million years from now they won't have biodegraded at all (or similar). Make pretty great drinking water containers in these tropical countries where rainfall really isn't a limiting problem...
Biodegradable / compostable toilets. Don't ask me... Ask an engineer. Sigh.
There's a lot that could be done.
But people prefer to keep their minions weak and sick... Yeah.
They mostly do.
Those who devote their lives to getting in there and taking what they can get and the pursuit of power.
I mean...
If you see power as desirable because you can take more things in virtue of it... YOu are likely to really get in there and fight for it.
If you see power as undesirable because you have a responsibility to take less things in virtue of it. You have duty of care to others, now. You are less likely to really get in there and fight for it.
It's just a process of realising the best of options... The best of a bad bunch, or whatever.
There aren't many good leaders. Good leaders are reluctant leaders. And there is no shortage of psychopaths fighting tooth and claw to be in charge.
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