Re: "Look to the animals for sewage solution," Aug. 12."
The animals' secret is simple. It's called population control.
Animals have predators and they don't get blood transfusions or penicillin. They don't require constant economic growth to survive. It's an ecosystem, it's balanced. One animal's waste is another animal's food. Humans are "above" the natural world. We don't let anything thin our herd (or the bunnies or deer that live near us) and so our wastes will soon overwhelm the ability of natural systems to break it down.
Not only that, but animals don't take pills or drink coffee or dye their hair or use night cream. They don't use soap.
They don't cook their food. They only eat organic. They don't use their toilet as a garbage can. The list goes on and on.
Indeed, if we all learned their secret, we could clean up the whole world.
Marie Savage-McDermott Victoria
