> The fact that people get used to it (like people get used to the garbage smell in New York) doesn't mean it isn't a real problem. New York smells much better

> The fact that people get used to it (like people get used to the garbage smell in New York) doesn't mean it isn't a real problem. New York smells much better than it did 150 years ago, when there was no organized sanitation service and decomposing food and horses lay in the streets. There were an estimated 25,000 horses in the city. Each horse produced 30-50 pounds of manure a day. Clouds of pulverized horse manure particles blew into the air and the unbearable stench spread everywhere. There were no electric fans available to move the air, and the humidity made people sweat profusely. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/07/28/nyregion/heat-struck-july-1852.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/07/28/nyregion/heat-...