There is always a new “Crisis” yet life has never been better

We’re told “By the late 1800s, large cities all around the world were “drowning in horse manure". In order for these cities to function, they were dependent on thousands of horses for the transport of both people and goods.”

The article at Historic UK goes on:

“This huge number of horses created major problems. The main concern was the large amount of manure left behind on the streets. On average a horse will produce between 15 and 35 pounds of manure per day, so you can imagine the sheer scale of the problem. The manure on London’s streets also attracted huge numbers of flies which then spread typhoid fever and other diseases.”

“Each horse also produced around 2 pints of urine per day and to make things worse, the average life expectancy for a working horse was only around 3 years. Horse carcasses therefore also had to be removed from the streets. The bodies were often left to putrefy so the corpses could be more easily sawn into pieces for removal.

“The streets of London were beginning to poison its people.

“But this wasn’t just a British crisis: New York had a population of 100,000 horses producing around 2.5m pounds of manure a day.”

Read the entire article here…

So this became known as the ‘Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894’.

I’m firmly in the camp that thinks life has never been better.