OMG, and there we have it. In a historical paper describing an argument from the 1840s about whether sewage systems should be one-way (and just take stuff "away") or circular (and spread sewage on the field to feed more people) this line about the disagreements between Edwin Chadwick and engineers like Bazelgette sets out reason that so much of modern engineering has caused environmental problems - it's been all about local solutions and not systems.
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