Re:India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste
by vivekd on Thursday April 27, 2017 @04:23AM
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I don't think that really answers the parent's point. The connection between cholera and shitting where you drink is an obvious one. The connection between putting kids in daycare and polluting the ocean and whatever bad things come out of that are a few times removed and remote. It's a lot easier to see that drinking poo water will make you sick than it is to see that putting kids into daycare will "frustrate them for life."
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Re:India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste
by ace_of_spades on Thursday April 27, 2017 @04:38AM
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But what is interesting about this case and the comparison is that knowledge about something does not necessarily lead to change in behavior. So you should probably argue that it is a lot easier to change the place a village shits than to change the structure and incentives of our globalized economy.