“Humans began to show their pathogenic potential toward the planet during the 1950s, ravenously devouring natural resources and discarding waste into the environment with utter carelessness. From 1990 to 1997, human global consumption grew as much as it did from… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share
“We line up and make a lot of noise about big environmental problems like incinerators, waste dumps, acid rain, global warming and pollution. But… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The "old school" of wastewater treatment, still embraced by most government regulators and many academics, considers water to be a vehicle for the routine transfer of waste from on place to another. It also considers the accompanying organic material to be of little or no value. The "new school", on the other hand, sees water as a dwindling, precious resource… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share
“A young English couple was visiting with me one summer after I had been composting humanure for about six years. One evening, as dinner was being prepared, the couple suddenly understood the horrible reality of their situation: the food they were about to eat was recycled human shit. When this fact abruptly dawned upon them, it seemed to set off… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share
“Humans began to show their pathogenic potential toward the planet during the 1950s, ravenously devouring natural resources and discarding waste into the environment with utter carelessness. From 1990 to 1997, human global consumption grew as much as it did from the beginning of civilization until 1950. In fact, the global economy grew more in 1997 alone than during the entire 17th century.” — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share
“The world is divided into two categories of people: those who shit in drinking water and those who don't.” — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“When viewed at the next quantum level of perspective, from which the Earth is seen as an organism and humans are seen as microorganisms,… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“What did happen to Mars, anyway? Our next door neighbor, the Red Planet, apparently was once covered with flowing rivers. What happened to them?… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Thermophilic composting requires no electricity and therefore no coal combustion, no acid rain, no nuclear power plants, no nuclear waste, no petrochemicals and no… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Suppose we humans are, as a species, exhibiting disease behavior: we’re multiplying with no regard for limits, consuming natural resources as if there will… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
