So what that he's wearing 21st Century clothes. The human waste in the streets is right out of the dark ages. I cannot imagine the reek assailing a visitor's nostrils.
It may be shocking to realize, but human waste right out in the streets was not uncommon in Europe and America quite a long time after the end of the Dark Ages.
In 1858, Parliament could not sit in its normal session due to the unbearable stench coming off the Thames; a result of conditions that had literally been festering for centuries.
The Great Stink
Clean, efficient sewage and waste disposal is not as ancient (nor as complete) an accomplishment in the West as some might imagine. So, cut the folks dealing with a whole host of impediments to development (some traceable to Western fucking-with) a little slack. I would think that support and advice might be more productive and appropriate than opprobrium.
That is basically correct as general view.
Pettenkofer was the guy who organized the drain system and piped water supply besides other hygienic campains in Munich mid of the 19th century. At the end of that century Munich was the cleanest city on the continent.
But, you know, there were no aliens from Atlantis giving this achievments to them.
They did it themselves, they worked on it, they paid taxes for it, because of that they maintained it.
We should not help the african people by doing the work for them, additionally pay for it. They have to do it themselves. As long as we don't simply say: "we support you with know how to avoid annecessary failures, but the rest you have to arrange by yourselves, otherwise you stay drowning in shit and we don's care about it", nothing will change there.
