Empathy with the Flushed

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Young visitors wearing “feces hats” climb a ladder to the slide of a giant mock toilet to experience what it is like to be flushed down the bowl.

The exhibition, at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, attempts to explain the effects human waste has on the environment.

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I do not envy the artist whose job it was to make an empathizable pile of…poo. Really. My hat’s off to you. It’s not a feces hat, though. Just not my thing – I’m sure you understand.

Human Wasted & Earth’s Future via SF Gate.

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