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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Poor sanitation remains a massive global health crisis with truly lethal consequences.
Chapter 3: Adequate sanitation can save millions of lives and billions of dollars.
Chapter 4: Sanitation is a taboo subject, which makes it far harder for people to address effectively today.
Chapter 5: Changing people’s habits and attitudes toward sanitation is crucial for effective activism.
Chapter 6: Sanitation is a global problem that no one can ignore.
Chapter 7: Human waste is a valuable resource, as China is clearly demonstrating.
Chapter 8: Recycling human waste has numerous complexities and challenges, much like our attitudes toward it today.
Description
The Big Necessity (2008) takes a detailed look at the issues surrounding human excrement. Most people would rather ignore these issues – but turning a deaf ear is precisely what’s led to the sanitation crises plaguing the world today. Sanitation is too important to dismiss; a lack of it is causing thousands of needless deaths worldwide. Find out what can be done to help in these blinks.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who’s ever had a bowel movement
- Anthropologists interested in city-planning, urban design and living
- Activists interested in global health and saving lives