As we read the phrase "everything at once," the notion of "the environment" being out there is set aside by a new understanding based on INCLUSION: we are environment. We're part of it and it is part of us. We are wilderness; we are backcountry. Wherever we are, we're in and part of Dame Nature - even if you're walking down 5th Avenue in New York City.

Again, our intention is to make people aware of the fact that they are the atmosphere, the air, the water sources, the animals and plants and even the microorganisms that share the planet. The notion that all these essentials of life are somehow separate and distinct is part of Western Civilization's historical philosophic error. Our lives, our very existence, is twined with nature: everything at once! All the life sciences are now teaching this "strange new reality." All life, land, and water IS Dame Nature. Goethe knew that the Western perception about things being separate from nature was wrong when he wrote:

"If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors."

It's truly an error of Western man to see himself superior and separate from the "other" life forms around him. His ability to imagine and think and have a unique form of consciousness is not an excuse to annihilate the other life forms if they get in his way. Nor is it an excuse to simply poop and leave it on the ground when he visits the remaining natural areas. Part of our mission is to expose this error of perception, and to get those who use wilderness and backcountry regularly to personally manage their own poop.

This Blog Will Not Shy Away From Poop Talk

When you stop shying away from the reality that human beings MUST poop and pee, we think it impossible NOT to put the toilet as a subject more important than literacy or poverty or education or even employment. ALL the other subjects DO NOT KILL people (at least from disease). Dealing responsibly with human poop is critical to life itself. The politics of dealing with human poop is one of man's great disgraces. We wondered why politicians do nothing while people die by the millions from poor sanitation in their countries. Here's what we've found:

It begins with the politicians themselves. The very subject of human poop makes many politicians ill. It makes ALL of them uncomfortable. One journalist asking questions of a group of Filipino politicians said that several of them turned pink when he turned the subject to the dire sanitation conditions of most Filipinos. At least four left the room to throw up. These are grown men and women. There were no pictures shown of the squalor of the villages. He simply asked them a few questions. We believe these reactions are traceable to the early childhood of people throughout the world. We can say that numberless millions of people suffer some sort of lifelong remembrance of the trauma associated with pooping and peeing. People remember the many embarrassments they experienced simply trying to relieve themselves.

We know that as long as man had no established home or dwelling place, he had no toilet system. He simply pooped wherever he felt like it and moved on the next day. However when he began to have a fixed home or dwelling place he began to dig a hole or arrange for a place away from the home or dwelling place to poop and pee. This was not done for sanitation purposes, but to keep the smells that arise from human poop and pee away from their homes.