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Chinese Antique Wisdom and Global Warming
By Derek Dashwood
China is encouraging the creation of septic tanks that basically recycle: hoses from human and animal waste locations are drained into a cement tub in the ground. We see the bubbling stew of this waste and from the center of the tank, with two hoses coming in, is one hose feeding back out.
We follow it along as it has been carefully placed up in the rafters of their modest home, feeding down the wall to the kitchen stove. Here, the camera running, the pretty young wife with her two children and proud husband nearby, turns on the gas stove. She pours in vegetables and spices, some meat, for their dinner.
Through a translator, she explains how much easier life is now that they have a gas stove. They save hours daily by not foraging for sticks to make fuel with, or coal from the hills. The house was always thick with smoke, the children were ill, she did not feel well. Now, life is so much easier. The gas stove burns clean, the house is clear of smoke and soot, and the children no longer have colds and coughs, and the wife radiantly smiles that she has never felt better.
As well, now they save hours each day by not longer having to search for fuel to cook with. With this extra time, they are making repairs to their equipment and home they never had time to, even find themselves sitting around and laughing with the spare time they can now enjoy, and they now feel rich.
The documentary shows that this is being encouraged and paid for by the government of China, and we think with all the criticisms back and forth about melamine and dirty soil, that this is such a good news story that China should be very proud of, and that we all should encourage among the poor of China, and everywhere. We see examples of people in India and Africa caught in that prehistoric web of gathering sticks to cook the meals: perhaps we need to encourage through the United Nations a billion of these recycling septic energy systems. Two-three billion? And people, when they have extra hours of time in their lives, have always applied that to lifting themselves from poverty, to low income, to middle, and...So have we all pulled ourselves up by our own bootstraps, always.
We all need to start somewhere, and we did. Here is a powerful way for very worthy things to happen: we don't need to get off the pot to make it happen, we need to re direct our gusto back into our own gas stove. The lady in China says it smells pure and clean. So? What keeps us from directing our own wind from filling out our sails? Pride?
Just before a fall.
Global warming is so serious and will be so expensive that every inexpensive means should be done
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