How One Man Wanted To Save The World By Taxing Its Poop

I think we can all agree that , in the early 1800s , there were a lot of problem with the world . One military personnel saw those problems and came up a solution … a solution involving poop .

Pierre Leroux care society , but not authority . Born in the former 1700s , he somehow find a style to be both a utopian and an economic expert . Perhaps he get by it by being a philosophic economist , rather than a practical economist . Leroux appear for ways to let a country assert its citizenry without exerting authority over them , and for people to retain their prop without using it to deprive others .

One of the thing that would labor the humankind to desperation and authoritarianism , Leroux believed , was scarcity . He was a Malthusian , who believe the ascend universe would inevitably lead to deprivation . look for ways to stave in off the intellectual nourishment crisis he saw coming , he hit on a novel possibility . Though he was n’t a Fannie Merritt Farmer , he make love that animal manure could improve the crop . Though he was n’t a public wellness expert , he have it off that human BM had to be collected and toss of . Currently , faeces was shoot as far away from universe cities as possible and then let go willy-nilly .

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This seemed , to Leroux , like a wasteland . To stop the disposal of so much riches , he came up with Circulus theory . Human feces would be gather and reprocess as fertilizer , run to better crops and less starvation . Most people did not care for the idea . Leroux sulkily proclaimed that if people were more educated , then “ Each would conscientiously gather his dung to give to the State , that is to say the revenue enhancement accumulator , in office of tax or personal levy . Agricultural production would double immediately and poverty would disappear from the case of the ground . ”

Few were carry , but Leroux did have some admirers . Among them was Victor Hugo . In Les Miserables , Hugo at one point describes the cloaca as “ gold flow from full hands , ” and makes a passionate defense of Circulus theory , though he never calls out the theory by name .

If that were in the musical , I ’d finally watch out it .

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