It was not until recently that I felt the need to consider the effects of sex toys on climate change.
Apparently there are others.
There is an established environmental protection industry.
Friendly sex products will not only make you happy, but also make Mother Earth happy. (Go ahead.
I will wait here when you Google \"Eco Toys. ”)
Vegetarian and organic lubricants.
Latex condom made from sustainable rubber sap
Manage the plantation.
Designed to alleviate environmental pollution
Silicone vibrator powered by solar or rechargeable batteries. Who knew?
Did I mention the whip made of recycled rubber?
Not long ago, all of this was brought to the attention of graduate students at Simon Fraser University\'s Professor of Sustainable Energy, Mark jakard.
The student stumbled upon a book that, among other things, provided advice on how to have a \"green\" sex life.
It claims eco-
Sexual products like the above reduce pollution and reduce the use of the environment
Unfriendly energy and non-
Renewable resources
As an engineer, she decided to study the physics behind this statement.
She looked at it for a long time and found that in the 1960 sexual revolution, Sexual Consumption
As a result, the energy required to produce and transport related materials has actually decreased.
Maybe it was the demographics of the time, maybe the pill.
However, studies of sexual preferences at the time estimated that only 1 to 5% of women used vibrators. Today?
Contemporary surveys show that this number is between 40 and 55.
Perhaps, again, this may be the demographics at work, or it may be the impact of 50 degrees of gray on the reading public.
However, the consumption of these products has increased significantly, followed by the improvement of the ecological environment.
Sex products.
However, the environmental problem is that although the materials in environmental protection products have increased, the energy needed to supply electricity for manufacturing and transportation to the market has also increased.
The increase in energy is often detrimental to the environment.
Latex condoms may be organic and eco-friendly, but diesel in the ocean-
To the freighter and the half
The trailer that let them go to the market is not.
Jaccard\'s graduate students concluded in doing math that while some consumers have changed their behavior to buy green products, a large number of sex products have been removed from this beneficial behavior
She concluded that even if all the people who bought sex toys bought eco-toys
Friendly products, it may offset energy and global
The impact of climate warming emissions is only five to ten per cent.
In other words, changing personal consumption behavior will have some impact on the environment, but the impact is not large.
The study of graduate students is very interesting and well illustrates the climate --
The world finds its own problem of change, and Jaccard has included it in a draft of his most recent book, titled the illusion of duel.
In the book, Jaccard not only challenges the belief of business leaders and politicians who insist on adapting to the climate --
Changing plans is not economically and socially feasible, but the Greens insist that in order to cope with climate change, we must fundamentally change our personal behavior without the technology we expect.
The divide between the two camps, and the illusion that Jaccard calls them, offset each other and create what he sees as a fixed deadlock.
This is an inflexible theory, while the other ignores the reality of human psychology and the modern world. “I —we —
It\'s been 25 years.
Part of the reason is that environmental activists
We can all change our behavior.
Some politicians (
\"I can only do so much in policy and the public needs to make real changes \")
Some industries (
\"We compete globally and the public needs to change behavior, so we can\'t do much,\" he said . \").
Instead, we should acknowledge the reality of our lives and cooperate with them, he said.
\"We are a technology society, our behavior is like this, we want status, we want entertainment, we want sex, we want mobility, we want people to see and talk, we want comfort, what we will always want.
They won\'t go.
They include the use of energy.
But fortunately, these things are technically easy to get without CO2 emissions.
That includes more basic technology than sex toys, says Jaccard.
More in my next column.