As the world loses its shit over the coronavirus, toilet paper has sold out in supermarkets across Australia and other countries around the world as people fear the worst. Being that most people in the western world are well aware of the fact that we exploit the hell out of the cheap labor in China, thousands of people in Australia have wrongly assumed that we will soon run out of essentials such as, that's right, toilet paper.
Despite authorities clearly stating that most of the toilet paper used in Australia is actually also produced in Australia and that there is no threat that we will run out, it seems that stupidity is more contagious than the coronavirus itself. The problem has gotten so bad that some supermarkets have literally had to put a limit on the amount of toilet paper that any one individual is allowed to purchase at a time.
This brings to our attention two major problems that we are facing in today's world.
1) How easily people are influenced by fear, heavily played on by the media just to get higher view ratings as they know that people are tragically captivated and motivated by fear, only fueling a society where we are more guarded and less connected and
2) The serious contribution that toilet paper actually has on the ever-growing pressure on our natural resources and environment due to the amount of deforestation it causes and water needed to produce it.
* Toilet paper is responsible for 15% of the deforestation on the planet today.
* To produce just 1 ton of toilet paper, it takes about 17 trees and 20,000 gallons of water.
* Considering that in the US alone they use over 3000 tons of toilet paper a day, that's 60 million gallons of water and 51, 000 trees per year that are being wasted because of the US alone.
* Not to mention the energy, fossil fuels and human resources needed to get it from being a tree to wiping your dirty toosh.
* Two adult trees can provide enough oxygen for a family of 4, so as the population on earth increases at a rate faster than ever, that's a supply of oxygen being cut off from 25,500 FAMILIES per year, just purely from the use of toilet paper from people in the USA!
* 11% of the planet's population doesn't have access to clean drinking water, yet here we are using it to ineffectively clean our backsides in the most inefficient way possible. That's right, not only does toilet paper use a ridiculous amount of human and natural resources, but it's also been proven to be less effective than cleaning your bum with a water hose as it tends to just spread excrements around your genital area.
So what is the solution? Well, many countries in Asia have already realized just how much more sense it makes to install a "bum gun" or toilet spray gun, not only saving them time and money buying toilet paper but helping the environment at the same time.
It's time to change this silly tradition and make it the norm to install these "bum gun" devices in our homes.
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coronavirus is not the biggest problem we face today, the misuse and distribution of products and resources are.
excuse the pun but help us make this post viral, let's educate the people as to what we really need to be worrying about, mass consumption of resources and fear-mongering media are a blueprint for a real disaster.
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