(ANSA) - ROME, 07 FEB - What is the relationship between climate change and sex?
How does global warming affect sexual activity and relationships between people?
Stefano Caserini, professor of Climate Change Mitigation at the Politecnico di Milano, tried to answer these answers in his book "Sex and the Climate" (People).
"The IPCC (the UN's scientific committee on climate, ed) in the tens of thousands of pages of its reports has not yet written a line on this link -, explains Caserini on the Climbalteranti.it site, to which it collaborates -. To fill this gap. , years ago I began to collect material that I intercepted in scientific literature, in newspapers, but also in books and songs. I enjoyed browsing the journals of medicine, psychology, sociology and sexology ".
Among the discoveries made by Caserini on scientific literature, there are "the possible links between high levels of CO2 and the state of falling in love" and "the reduction in births 9 months after heat waves".
On the more political-social side, there are "the mobilizations of the ecosex movements against mountain top removal (a devastating practice with which the peaks of the mountains explode to extract coal) or those who plant a tree if you send a nude or sexy photo".
Caserini also cites a tweet from Fridays For Future Italia (the movement of Greta Thunberg) for the Valentine's Day of the past year: "Year after year a #SanValentino more and more #hot. Makelove, not CO2".
"It is a 'serious' book - explains the teacher -, in the sense that it contains citations to about fifty different scientific journals, but which I wanted to keep in a light form, I would say almost 'pop', with citations of passages by Monteverdi, TomWaits, Paolo Conte, Jim Morrison, Freddie Mercury, Cole Porter, Fabrizio De André or books by Melania Mazzucco and GiovanniJervis ".
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