The average person produces about four hundred pounds of excrement annually, so with more than seven billion people live on this planet, that equates to 2.8 trillion pounds of human fecal matter generated each year. Consequently, we need to spend considerable time, effort, and expense managing all this waste lest we find ourselves in very deep…
The funny thing about trying to re-make the world after generations of humans have so effectively un-made it is that sometimes even the best intentioned of plans for a more environmentally friendly and sustainable future can end up producing undesirable, sometimes even environmentally harmful, effects. Solar panel farms, for example, may be seen as less destructive that fossil fuel extraction, however they require for land to develop, disrupting larger amounts of plant and wildlife habitat.