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Climate Change, Poverty and The Great Horse Poo Debate of 1898

Laurel Papworth

All transport, whether of goods or people, was drawn by horses. Or will new technologies, social entrepreneurship, microfinancing (peer to peer loans) from unexpected quarters save our skins? What’s that, I hear you say? London in 1900 had 11,000 cabs, all horse-powered. Will the problem simply go away? My personal opinion?