It’s like they wake up and go “what can we link to climate doom today?”
Climate change is encouraging unsanitary toilet practices among vulnerable communities
Everyone knows that climate change has consequences, such as a higher likelihood of severe floods, hurricanes and droughts. But here’s a lesser-known problem: Climate change makes toilets more likely to break, which leaves people more likely to “go” outside.
That’s what colleagues and I found when we studied households across six rural Cambodian provinces, focusing on their access to proper toilets and when people decide to abandon sanitary systems in favor of open defecation, or “going” outside.
We analyzed sanitation behavior surveys that were given to about 200,000 households every two years from 2013 to 2020. These questionnaires looked into how households maintained access to sanitary toilet systems, when these facilities were abandoned, and why. It also inquired about the poverty status of the households.
A second survey of 1,472 households that owned a pour-flush latrine purchased through local sanitation businesses supported by the nonprofit organization iDE looked at how well these toilets functioned, as well as attitudes toward waste management. In this case, waste management refers to how often and when latrine pits are emptied and whether the waste is contained in a safe and hygienic way.
Seriously, they looked at one nation, and decided that Bad Weather, which has always happened, is the fault of Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles and living a modern lifestyle. And, seriously, not only did they look at Cambodia, which is considered a high 3rd world nation to a low 2nd world nation, they looked at people in the rural areas
Our goal was to establish how living in regions vulnerable to the effects of climate change affects how well sanitary toilets function, and the impact that has on households’ sanitation practices and perceptions.
Sigh. What’s Cambodia like?
Cambodia’s troubled history exacerbated poverty and perpetuated economic inequities. Decades of destructive conflict, civil war, and economic, political, and social instability have contributed to the widespread poverty that currently exists in the country, especially among rural dwellers. The conflict resulted in the destruction of infrastructure, human capital, and institutions, as well as a large proportion of Cambodians being displaced, maimed, orphaned, or widowed. Not surprisingly, these conditions created deep poverty, and the aftermath has been accompanied by widespread economic and social inequities.
So, not exactly the place one looks for having lots of toilets that always work, right?
Going to the toilet is a basic human necessity, yet more than half the world’s population uses toilets that do not treat human waste before it reenters the environment, typically into rivers.
In other words, they’re using outhouses and hand dug pits. But, them having problems is on you. Hey, maybe if we’d stop wasting so much money on ‘climate change’ garbage there would be money to help them out.
“Everyone knows that climate change has consequences, such as a higher likelihood of severe floods, hurricanes and droughts. But here’s a lesser-known problem: Climate change makes toilets more likely to break, which leaves people more likely to “go” outside.
No, James, everyone doesn’t know. Especially the ‘Climate change makes toilets more likely to break”BS.
What you are doing is trying to manufacture a crisis that will get you money.
Stealing by any other name is the same.
Oh, good grief! All animals other than humans ‘go’ outside, something which humans did as well until recently. Some primitive communities even use human droppings as “night soil” to fertilize gardens. Matt Damon survived more than a year on Mars growing potatoes in his own poop!
Yeah, I know, that was a movie, but . . . .
What we eat, we excrete, and what we eat comes from the earth itself; we’re sim-ply recycling food, is all.
While talking with a friend at NASA (he has since left) about Mars ventures, I too mentioned that Matt Damon grew spuds is his own waste. He didn’t think that was funny. I also told him, Robert A Heinlein, Total Recall and Elon Musk not withstanding, humans were not going to colonize Mars (NASA has that plan!).
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You can try and change the subject but the point is brutally clear. This is just another attempt to get money for “research” by falsely claiming that climate change is involved.
“Study region
Urban flooding is an intensifying issue in the rapidly developing lowland cities of Southeast Asia. Cambodia’s Phnom Penh City, located at the confluence of the Mekong and Tonle Sap Rivers in the lower Mekong Basin, recently saw increasingly prevalent flash floods, resulting in casualties and damages.
Study focus
While flood planning and impact assessments have been done in the Mekong basin, flood causes in the face of climate change remain insufficiently understood. In this paper, the drivers of the increasingly prevalent floods in Phnom Penh are investigated through analysis of remote sensing and instrumental data.“
Just look at all the qualifications.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214581824002945?via%3Dihub
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the scumbag who helped demote Pluto, pointed out that the growing food in his own poop part of the movie was problematic, because Mars’ soil isn’t dirt, but it’s really just dust.
Mars’ dirt also contains high concentration of perchlorates, which are toxic as far as plant growth is concerned.
By what mechanism?
Did you know that CLIMATE CHANGE! causes mechanical pencils to malfunction, and for cars to need more-frequent oil changes? It MUST be true – it’s on the Internet! (Well, it is NOW, anyway.)