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Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know its value. For 4,000 years they have used raw human feces to fertilize fields.

— Rose George

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Along with all the other stunning statistics China can provide, it can also claim to be the world leader in making energy from human excrement. Biogas, as this energy is known, can be produced from the fermentation of any organic material, from wood to vegetables to human excreta.

— Rose George

While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.

— Ma Jun

China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust.

— Rose George

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

— Yao Ming

Over two billion people in China and India need commodities to grow their economies and improve their living standards.

— Ivan Glasenberg

The Chinese use every spare bit of an animal: cow lungs, pig ears, chicken feet, duck blood.

— Jennifer Lee

Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.

— Chen Guangbiao

I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

— Ferdinand Marcos

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

— Bill Gates

✗Opposing Perspectives

Frankly, the only thing China has in easy abundance is people and dirty coal. Neither is the asset they're made out to be.

— Thomas P.M. Barnett