tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2216751897705338056.post92333606210530307..comments2023-10-17T03:41:01.759-04:00Comments on reflexiones finales: Sewer emergenciesrussell1200http://www.blogger.com/profile/16258915475311426433noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2216751897705338056.post-53561216614152156102013-11-01T17:20:55.227-04:002013-11-01T17:20:55.227-04:00Pioneer: I sort of agree with you. But I don'...Pioneer: I sort of agree with you. But I don't think you can scatter out 330 million people and make everything else work. Cities are more efficient. They just require a lot of inputs. Thus cities grow to the maximum size that their societies level of organization (which would also include available power/technology) will allow. So when the cities fall apart, the loss of efficiency just about guarantees that it won't be a smooth sloop downward.russell1200https://www.blogger.com/profile/16258915475311426433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2216751897705338056.post-4822985461043404432013-10-30T13:57:34.934-04:002013-10-30T13:57:34.934-04:00Let's face it almost no one who hasn't alr...Let's face it almost no one who hasn't already given it some thought is going to bother with buckets and composting their household human waste.<br /><br />The cities that can get away with it will open the valves and let it flow and those areas where it can't be disposed of easily will become..well.. wastelands.<br /><br />Our current government has focused on sewer regulation and made it much worse than it needs to be. With a little manual labor, a willingness to get dirty and a quarter acre of land any home can take care of it's waste problems almost permanently with just a little bit of yearly maintenance.<br /><br />The stuff actually breaks down pretty quickly if you handle it correctly and as long as you are not stacking people on top of each other in small spaces.<br /><br />Which is really the issue here. The government wants to be able to stack people on top of each other.<br /><br />PioneerPreppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09269878017447335944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2216751897705338056.post-33901480755431215742013-10-30T11:10:04.314-04:002013-10-30T11:10:04.314-04:00James: Even the 80% fill that they note is going ...James: Even the 80% fill that they note is going to be pretty heavy. But its as good a benchmark as any I guess. A lot of work for an item that usually only takes up a couple of lines in even the "realistic" prepper stories.russell1200https://www.blogger.com/profile/16258915475311426433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2216751897705338056.post-9968726935937160612013-10-30T10:11:35.618-04:002013-10-30T10:11:35.618-04:00My first thought on this was, are people really go...My first thought on this was, are people really going to keep using the bucket until it fills to the top?James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.com