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Professor Donald Worster
Notes
- I’m pretty sure that neither of the Donald Worsters you will locate on Twitter is the real thing. However, The Good Muck: Toward an Excremental History of China is available to download at The Rachel Carson Center.
- Here’s the transcript.
- The problem of human waste is still with us, even in the “rich” world. Two weeks ago, The New Yorker published The Heavy Toll of the Black Belt’s Wastewater Crisis.
- The poor world too, more so, but for some reason the people actually doing something about it don’t want to talk to us about their work.
- You can also download Franklin King’s Farmers of Forty Centuries; or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan, which is where I got the banner photograph.
I asked my grandmother when she was about 90 years old (2006-ish) what she thought was the most amazing invention during her lifetime. Answer: indoor toilet.
I was telling this story to another friend of mine 5 or 6 years later. She was about 92 At the time and blurted out, “indoor toilet!” So, I apologized—thinking I’d already shared time story with her. But she quickly told me that was *her* answer.
So: important stuff!