Is our sex drive killing the planet?
As if heartbreak, scandal, and STDs weren't bad enough, now we have to worry about sex wrecking the whole planet. In a column for BBC News, Matt Prescott asserts that the male need to impress the opposite sex is behind the material excess that's clogging up our earth, air and water with toxic crap, and that we crave eco-nasty bling like Hummers and gold cell phones because we still have the instincts of our Stone Age forebears. Back in those days, of course, a man's possessions (say, a stack of bearskins or a particularly nice rock) demonstrated power and strength and were a sure ticket to sexual success.
Prescott paints in pretty broad strokes, and sidesteps some big questions (such as what drives females to conspicuous consumption - men aren't especially attracted to a huge shoe closet.) And clearly, not all men and women are motivated entirely by their ancestral monkey brain. Still, his essential point is sound, as anyone can attest who's ever heard a table of drunk frat boys shouting out Pacino's iconic line from Scarface - "First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the women!"
Fortunately it looks like the tide is turning, and green is getting sexy. It's no longer just the admirable but geeky Ed Begley Jr. who rolls around Hollywood in earth-friendly wheels, but perennial world's sexiest man Brad Pitt. And sure, climate change ditherer George W. Bush is President, but runner-up and born-again environmentalist Al Gore has got an Oscar AND a Nobel Prize. Who do you reckon gets more fan mail?
So don't worry, all you hemp-wearing, bike-riding, Inconvenient-Truth-watching dudes out there - your day is coming.
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