The Human Factory

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The Human Factory

EXCERPT:

All of us humans who inhabit this planet Earth are in fact factories, factories for transforming food into Energy and factories for the production of shit! I am using that word ‘shit’ deliberately in order to bring home to even the most squeamish a fact of life.

We transform food into energy and we in turn produce shit – pollution. We are natural polluters.

Now there are some among us who would take the moral high ground and call themselves ‘environmentalists’, as if they alone cared for the environment. Do not allow this, my friend, for if you do not care to have your footpaths fouled by dog-shit; if you do not like to have the shores thick with a heavy black oil sludge; if you do not wish to breathe in the bad egg smells emanating from the production of steel; if you do not want to see your rivers clogged with chemicals which kill off the fish; - I could go on – then you my friend, you and I, equally with all the others who do not like pollution, are an Environmentalist.

Some people boast that they are Green. It is nothing to boast about because I do not know a single soul who does not prefer clean to dirty. We are all against pollution; we are all Green.

However, just as we are human factories, endlessly producing waste products, so every form of Energy production unfortunately produces some sort of pollution. It does not matter too much whether our energy, our electricity is produced by atomic reactions, or by coal-fired furnaces, the result is always the same. In order to get the energy, which we in the Western or Developed World consider to be our right, we inevitably produce some sort of pollution. Just how to cope with these pollutions is something that exercises us human beings mightily.

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