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Loading... Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasureby Bryn Nelson PhD
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Everything you ever wanted to know, and some things you didn’t , about poops place in our lives. Some chapters deal with our bodies and how to have the healthiest relationship with waste and others deal with ideas like composting toilets, recycling poop info water and fuel and the possibility of using it for food during space travel. Both scientific and humorous, a great read ( ) Very gee whiz. It often felt like a credulous journalist repeating marketing material, instead of skeptically digging deeper. Scattershot and repetitive. Mostly innumerate, as, e.g., in this quote: > If the world captured and repurposed its collective output, the theoretical value of human-derived biogas alone could be worth up to US$9.5 billion annually no reviews | add a review
"The future is sh*t: the literal kind. For most of human history we've been, well, disinclined to take a closer look at our body's natural product-the complex antihero of this story-save for gleaning some prophecy of our own health. But if we were to take more than a passing look at our poop, we would spy a veritable cornucopia of possibilities. We would see potent medicine, sustainable power, and natural fertilizer to restore the world's depleted lands. We would spy a time capsule of evidence for understanding past lives and murderous ends. We would glimpse effective ways of measuring and improving human health from the cradle to the grave, early warnings of community outbreaks like Covid-19, and new means of identifying environmental harm-and then reversing it. Flush is both an urgent exploration of the world's single most squandered natural resource, and a cri de coeur (or cri de colon?) for the vast, hidden value in our "waste." Award-winning journalist and microbiologist Bryn Nelson, PhD, leads readers through the colon and beyond with infectious enthusiasm, helping to usher in a necessary mental shift that could restore our balance with the rest of the planet and save us from ourselves. Unlocking poop's enormous potential will require us to overcome our shame and disgust and embrace our role as the producers and architects of a more circular economy in which lowly byproducts become our species' salvation. Locked within you is a medicine cabinet, a biogas pipeline, a glass of drinking water, a mound of fuel briquettes; it's time to open the doors (carefully!). A dose of medicine, a glass of water, a gallon of rocket fuel, an acre of soil: sometimes hope arrives in surprising packages"-- No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)612.36Technology Medicine and health Human physiology Digestion Defecation; Large IntestineLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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