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one major cause of the death of our
precious seas and the collapse of the

ecologies that support life on this rare
planet … That was one steady flow of

absolutely toxic water coming through the
sewer pipe, and all of it is flushed down the

toilet or a basin by you, or somebody else.
In a saner world flush toilets would be

looked at as weapons of mass ecological
destruction; so would the chemicals that

constitute the pharmaceuticals that
humans take. This is one reason why you

should not swim in the Swartkops river, or
any river where a steady flow of human
sludge flows into the river constantly. …

And this is a most worrying state of affairs,
as we saw. We have no time for niceties

anymore.”

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