Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet: “the Condom”

Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet: “The Condom”

How will the condom not just save your life, but also the environment that you live in? This should be one of the main questions that everybody should be asking themselves, if they want to live longer and continue to enjoy the current environment that we have and make it a better place for our future generations. After reading “Seven Wonders for a Cool planet” you will find an interesting article about the “Condom” and how this little piece of rubber cannot just help your life but also, the environment that we live on. “A fraction of an ounce of responsibility can go a long way in helping the health of the planet and of the people that inhabit it.” (1). I never paid any attention on how this little piece of rubber could actually help preserve the environment and the many effects that it can have in the environment due to the lack of use from the millions of people that have sex in a daily basis throughout the world. the book, talks about one of the main effects that we can have due to the lack of use, will have to be the overpopulation of the planet therefore, it creates more pollution due to the fact that those humans beings will eventually need to have food, homes and vehicles for transportation using more fuel, wood and lots of food to survive affecting the environment and definitely creating changes to the current habitat of that particular environment that they will grow into.

“Condoms are used by millions of people worldwide to prevent pregnancy and stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, but now Brazil has come up with a new use for condoms: Preserving the Amazon rainforest: On April 7, 2008, the Brazilian government started producing condoms using rubber from trees in the Amazon rainforest. The idea is to slow deforestation of the rainforest by giving local people an economic alternative to clearing rainforest land for agriculture and cattle