Notes on environ-mentalism

1. Had a bath the other day -- a strange event -- not counting the even stranger case of the Balls Pond Road (of which, more later in the summer.)
I left the water in and have just emptied it -- using no fewer than 17 large plastic buckets and dropping them on the garden.
Saved a whole week's watering.
Is this average?
I mean, I'm not as small as I once was, but the bath's quite large.
It would take an average person and, say, two small goats.
(Not that I'd like to give away my choice of bathing partners.)
It was exhausting taking it all outside, bucket by bucket.
How much easier to take the plug out.
But then, where does it go?

2. South-east Brisbane (or East Bane) is about to have its urine recycled as drinking water.
Why that part of the town(s)?
And is there a worry?
The good and great Gough who established my (now dwindling) pension fund once remarked of Ghandi, when he heard that the latter drank a pint of his own every morning: "I've heard of going on the piss early, but that's ridiculous".

[[Edit: just read today's Oz and it looks like the Qld piss up is off.
And it was the SE of the whole state, hence all of Bris and Bane inter alia.]]

3. Heard a bloke on RN the other day arguing that children are a threat to society.
I agreed with everything he said.
Obviously, children have no idea of what society could be.
They live in their own heads, demand everything, get everything and get away with everything.
They're Leibnizian monads.
We should recycle them, if we're to recycle anything.
We could make TPP (textured proto-person protein) from them.
That could stop animal production and so boost veggie crops -- not to mention giving new meaning to the "baby bonus" -- and the remaining adults could live happily ever after.

Vote Green.

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