Last night we cuddled up to watch Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”, and, as the final credits rolled*, my gaze fell into the two birch rods left over from our reformatory experience. This made me wonder about relative ecological soundness of birch rods and canes.
I suggested that the cane ought to be considered more ecologically friendly: it’s certainly a higher-mileage implement, and with proper care, may survive for decades. A birch rod is lucky to last for three sessions, before it’s off to the woods to pick a new one.
Martha offered a different argument: birches, she says, are sourced locally, and clock up exactly zero food miles. In contrast, rattan for our canes needs to be flown in from Malaysia, thus contributing to the global warming.
Abel reckoned to two of us needed some global warming.
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* The design on those credits was simply awesome. The coolest credits ever. Yes, it’s slightly sad to be this excited about movie credits.
Well, I hope you appreciate this comment. I’ve walked away from a funny movie to sort this out:
I’m not a fan of birches (what the hell??) but couldn’t you ‘recycle’ those sticks by using them as kindling for the fireplace. In a sense you are just cleaning up the forest…….
Canes could be considered useless (ghasp!! cries of shcck and horror!!). I mean, maybe they have some vague sort of use as a walking stick, but for non-kinky types (who we must assume are in the majority), they are redundant, since CP is politically incorrect these days.
In these ‘global warming aware’ days, cane users may find themselves paying exhorbitant prices for canes, if they are available at all. (I know, I know, but don’t shoot the messenger….
PS My ‘global warming aware’ husband came by to beckon me back to the movie and adds that the only thing that is contributing to global warming here will be “the radiant heat being generated from a girl’s ass!!!”
The eco-friendly solution would be to grow your own, obviously.