Alex Giurcă 🇪🇺 Profile picture
Working for the Environment by day | Cartoonist by night | Riding bikes in forests in between 🚴🌳 Opinions obviously my own
Apr 16, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
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) 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)