Yeah but the difficulty won’t be “we have nowhere to put our shit”, it will be “how do we put our shit into this hole in our bathroom?” Which will probably turn into getting a bucket or two to anyone that doesn’t already have one and getting creative with fashioning funnels while the supply lines ramp up and deal with toilet scalpers and the other grifts that are sure to pop up. That 2.2 billion pounds of fecal matter can still be handled in the same way it currently is, we’d just be improvising the interface to it.
Though that is from a purely rational point of view. I do agree that there will be many infections that happen because of the average intelligence level and some thinking “all toilets broke means I gotta shit in the river” or “all toilets broke means I get to shit in the river” (ie some people fucking shit up because they don’t know any better and others fucking shit up because they like fucking shit up).
Yeah but the difficulty won’t be “we have nowhere to put our shit”, it will be “how do we put our shit into this hole in our bathroom?”
Yes, 8 billion people handling human waste is a very large problem. Especially considering there’s a large population of very young, very old, and disabled people that won’t be able to handle their own waste. Handling human waste is extremely dangerous, especially when a lot of people are doing it. Dysentery was the largest killer of people up until very recent modern times, and that just because of advances is sanitation systems.
Just teaching people how to disassemble broken toilets, how to run water afterwards, and then how to block the hole so sewer gas doesn’t flood every living space on earth seems like a nightmare. We couldn’t get people to wear masks correctly.
It doesn’t take a very large portion of the population becoming ill to have a societal threatening level of infrastructure collapse.
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Yeah but the difficulty won’t be “we have nowhere to put our shit”, it will be “how do we put our shit into this hole in our bathroom?” Which will probably turn into getting a bucket or two to anyone that doesn’t already have one and getting creative with fashioning funnels while the supply lines ramp up and deal with toilet scalpers and the other grifts that are sure to pop up. That 2.2 billion pounds of fecal matter can still be handled in the same way it currently is, we’d just be improvising the interface to it.
Though that is from a purely rational point of view. I do agree that there will be many infections that happen because of the average intelligence level and some thinking “all toilets broke means I gotta shit in the river” or “all toilets broke means I get to shit in the river” (ie some people fucking shit up because they don’t know any better and others fucking shit up because they like fucking shit up).
Yes, 8 billion people handling human waste is a very large problem. Especially considering there’s a large population of very young, very old, and disabled people that won’t be able to handle their own waste. Handling human waste is extremely dangerous, especially when a lot of people are doing it. Dysentery was the largest killer of people up until very recent modern times, and that just because of advances is sanitation systems.
Just teaching people how to disassemble broken toilets, how to run water afterwards, and then how to block the hole so sewer gas doesn’t flood every living space on earth seems like a nightmare. We couldn’t get people to wear masks correctly.
It doesn’t take a very large portion of the population becoming ill to have a societal threatening level of infrastructure collapse.