I admire the ingenuity behind such wood-based products, I can’t help but cringe at this wood is good solution. Sure we’ve proven that we can make many things out of wood, and we can substitute many products from car parts to toilets. But is substitution really the solution? (1/n)
https://twitter.com/niemi_karoliina/status/1382995496772452352
Take this toilet example⬆️Nice, it’s made out of wood but it’s not really paradigm-shifting, is it?
I mean, wooden toilets or "outhouses" have been around from the twentieth century. They’ve been slowly substituted by flush toilets from around the 1600s onwards (2/n)
I mean, wooden toilets or "outhouses" have been around from the twentieth century. They’ve been slowly substituted by flush toilets from around the 1600s onwards (2/n)
This was certainly a good thing (especially from a hygienic perspective), but today the flush toilet probably stands as one of the most unsustainable innovations in human history : theconversation.com/the-world-need… (3/n)
So instead of substituting things with wood, why not go further and ask harder questions like: Why waste perfectly potable water? What about using recycled water? Or compost toilets? Can we figure out a way to use these secondary products for energy and agriculture? (4/n)
This for me would be an example of a real paradigm shift towards a circular #bioeconomy, not simply substituting different products with wood (end)
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