Very soon, a time will come when nobody will prefer hard cover books. If Google, Scribd, Amazon (and the biggest evil of all - Adobe) keep publicizing e-books (and eating the pie out of the poor author's mouth), it won't be long before paper-back books will be a thing of the past.
With books out of the question, there will be no real use of paper left in this world. Except for one!
"Bathroom Tissue" (read: ass wiping paper).
As a proud Indian, you may never have thought about this, but Toilet Paper manufacturing is a major business. Amidst all the Eurozone debt-crisis, what eased the tension a little were the import figures of toilet paper!
An average American uses over 100 rolls every year. (They definitely like their shit!) The cost of maintaining delicate American buttocks is more than the cost of driving a Hummer. The thing is - Americans don't settle for the bathroom tissue made out of re-cycled paper. They need softer tissues which have to be made by chopping down trees. Each year 27,000 trees are required to suffice this need of white human backyard.
I don't have anything against Americans alone. There are others involved too. China manufactures (yes, China doesn't leave even this!) and exports the tissues to Americans and the rest of the world.
The question is whether the world will ever be willing to move on from this idea and adopt other techniques for personal hygiene. The famous singer Sheryl Crow recently voiced her opinion saying that one should use CLOTH instead of paper tissues. (for - you know what!) Of course, what other use do we have of clothes anyway! Ask her to use silk and then we'll talk.
There are a few who have adopted this and are quite happy with the results. One such dedicated cloth user April Horton says - "Using cloth toilet paper is not only an economical choice but once you try it I swear you'll never go back!"
I bet she used Satin!
However, one can safely say that America has single-buttockly distorted the hygiene choices people make. I sincerely hope, very soon, we Indians make a mark in this field and show the world the way to the farms. If nothing else, the dampen way of hygiene will put the melting north-pole to some clean use.
the accompanying pic is good..so is the title!! keep up the insanity ;)
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