Environmentalists Against Toilets

Flush Toilets Called 'Environmental Disaster'

CNS has this report about a group who evidently have too much time on their hands:

Forget the convenience and sanitation of the flush toilet that industrialized nations have enjoyed for most of the past century.

A growing number of environmentalists are now advocating the expanded use of compost or dry toilets worldwide to combat what they see as an international water crisis.

Proponents of dry toilets, set to convene at the first annual international
Dry Toilet 2003 conference in Tampere, Finland, August 20-23, warn of "environmental disaster" if developing nations aspire to flush toilets so prevalent in the industrialized world.

These "environmentalists" need to get a life. There is no right thinking person on earth who will buy into this drivel. If they did it would require turning back time and returning to the outhouse days. Hell, half the world is still dropping where the notion strikes them and fouling their own nest in the process. There is simply no way I'm trading in my flush toilet for a bucket, a hole in the ground, or a "dry Toilet" so you no-life losers may as well move on to another cause. This one's dead, dead, dead. Just in case you "dry toileters" think you have come up with something new here's a refresher on the dry toilet. The original dry toilet dates back thousands of years and this highly reliable version is still in limited use today. It was known as the GROUND. Later refinements resulted in a new model that came to be called a HOLE in the GROUND. Later small buildings were erected over the HOLE in the GROUND model and this version was known as an outhouse OVER a HOLE in the GROUND. In more modern societies this version was carried a step further and the HOLE in the GROUND was eliminated altogether. This radical design, known as the PORTA POTTY, was a concept so successful that thousands of people still use it today when a convenient HOLE in the GROUND can't be found. Thusly, your idea is not only old, it is tired unto death. Forget it!!

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