It's rare that an academic paper, particularly in STEM, contains florid and philosophical language. The way this author discusses the history of waste though is beautiful. A thread: #academicwriting #stem #waste #history #AcademicChatter #writing pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20817263/
"It is incredible how much history is found at the end of a sewage
system"
system"
"There is no more reliable source of customs and behaviour of a society than its waste products and this fact is beyond the perception of the civilization. A sociological analysis that is more truthful than the analysis of a wastewater does not exist."
"What is in the sewer does not lie and it brings everything back to balance like the accuracy of a level. In its residue is the search for truth. It is within this apparent ephemeral and yet explosive contact point between the civilization and its wastes that disclosure happens"
"The story of waste and wastewater management is at once a story of human ingenuity and human frailty."
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