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Why not use our humanure to create something beneficial. This book is pure genius. EVERYONE should read it Composting toilets are the future, we need to get rid of those stinky flushing toilets that are polluting our water. A great read. It will change your life.
Back in the 60s, there was a well-known adage: If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Joe Jenkins has not only found but tested -- for 30 years -- a solution to one of our most atrocious acts of pollution. He gives all the details with intelligence and humor.
The Humanure Handbook is thorough, funny, provocative and well-written. It challenged my own "fecophobia" and convinced me that humanure recycling is the most environmentally friendly approach to handling human elimination. Its adoption would change the world.
If you're serious about gardening, and you're a prepper, you *must* have this book.Well researched, there is nothing like this book on the market today - you peak oilers and survivalists, you need this book.
Seriously - this is a great book.The author's use of some slightly stinky words is humorously done and for the most part helps one to loosen up a little over a touchy subject.I have owned a commercial composting toilet for several years and never experience any problems with it - but never have I experienced any benefits (aside from saving 1,000's of gallons of water I guess. The earth has has ice ages and warm spells for thousands of years before humans showed up on the scene and they will likely continue after we are gone. :P ) but with the author's suggestions I will change that.I was put off a little by the author's opening remarks about "global warming" and other such nonsense. Al Gore was and is wrong - Carbon dioxide levels increase following temperature increases - they don't bring them about. That's all an aside - it doesn't change the author's very valuable message: Composting and recycling of human "waste" is the right thing to do regardless of the reasons one chooses to do it. I still use compact fluorescents and conserve energy wherever I can - but not for made-up reasons.Back to the subject at hand - this is a great book and I only hope that perusing it will convince some of the "Fecophobes" that re-using our bodily products after properly composting them is safe, beneficial, and preserves our precious fresh water supply.Read the book, become a believer.
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