I guess, like so many of us, I can't be blamed since it was the first one. But before I get into the topic--What do 1 billion of the world's humans do that bears do? That's right--Poop in the woods--more properly called "open defecation."
Certainly you've seen film clips about people living in slums, ramshackle hovels with corrugated tin roofs and cardboard for walls. Have you ever wondered why the background description always comments that the streets are "running sewers"? What do you think those people have in those two-rooms (if they're lucky two rooms) the finest sparkling Kohlers, Totos, or American Standards? And if they did, do you seriously think they'd be connected to running water--or the proper schedule piping to drain the stuff away?
It's only been a surprising few centuries that we of the First World stopped heaving shit by the bucketsful out of second story windows into the streets below. Even though we got a handle on the outhouse our streets were still festooned with horse droppings for another century.
Yesterday was the first UN World Toilet Day. When you stop laughing, think again how lucky you are to be living in a place where basic subsistence permits your pooping safely:
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20089-world-toilet-day-no-joke-for-billions-without-sanitation
Love, Peace, and Hope,
James Manista
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