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To: Eric who wrote (74541)	1/30/2017 9:13:44 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

FF's benefit human life. The benefits humanity has gained since it was dependent on 'renewable energy' are undeniable and obvious to all. 100% sustainable: wind power: sustainable New York City: Sustainable San Francisco: Also New York City: The great horse manure crisis of 1894 bytesdaily.blogspot.com The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894 Writing in the Times of London in 1894, one writer estimated that in 50 years every street in London would be buried under nine feet of manure. It seemed that The End of Civilisation As We Know It would be brought about, not by a meteor strike, global sickness or warfare, but by an excess of manure, by the urban equine. snip In 1898 the first international urban planning conference convened in New York. One topic dominated discussion: manure. Cities all over the world, including Sydney, were experiencing the same problem. Unable to see any solution to the manure crisis, the delegates abandoned the conference after three days instead of the scheduled ten days. Imagine that! On the then-current trajectory, in a few decades cities would be buried under NINE FEET OF MANURE! That was IT, folks; the END. Nothing left to do but retreat to the hills, learn survival gardening, stockpile ammo, that sort of thing. The situation was truly dire and unendurable: Quote banhdc.org urban sanitation departments during the nineteenth century were notoriously inefficient. Vexed by graft and corruption, they were staffed by “old and indigent men,” “prisoners who don’t like to work,” and “persons on relief.” Manure collected into unattended piles by the street cleaners bred huge numbers of flies and created “pestilential vapours.” Offal was sometimes carried from wealthy residential neighborhoods and dumped in poor neighborhoods, where it was left to rot. Streets turned into virtual cesspools when it rained, and long-skirted ladies suffered the indignity of trailing their hems in liquefied manure. ... Yet dry weather was no great improvement, for then there were complaints of the “pulverized horse dung” that blew into people’s faces and the windows of their homes, and over the outdoor displays of merchants’ wares. The coming of paved streets accelerated this problem, as wheels and hoofs ground the sun-dried manure against the hard surfaces and amplified the amount of dust. Horrid! Here's how it looked in New York, as horses left 2.5 million pounds of manure on the streets every single day: