Reasons Not to Shower

AIA-FL Blog ^ | December 10, 2009 | Bethany Stotts

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Reasons Not to Shower

Bethany Stotts, December 10, 2009

One Edinburgh University climate scientist argues in a December New Scientist article that common activities such as washing clothes, using toilet paper and drinking coffee are among the “five eco-crimes we commit every day.”

“I have long argued that climate change begins at home,” writes Dr. David Reay, senior lecturer on Global Change at Edinburgh. “Each of us in the developed world has played our part in creating this problem and, while there is no doubt that coordinated global action is needed to tackle it, we can each be part of the solution.” Reay is the author of Your Planet Needs You! A Kid’s Guide to Going Green.

His list of five everyday eco-crimes are:

1. Coffee. Apparently six-cups-a-day off this wake-up beverage can clock “up more than 175 kilograms of CO2 each year. That’s the equivalent of a flight across Europe—from London to Rome, say.”

“Add milk, and the methane belched by dairy cows means you increase your coffee’s climate-changing emissions by more than a third.”...

[RJS1950]

This guy and all of his friends should simply seal all of the orifices on their body and accept the result. If they believe the carbon dioxide crap argument then they should be the first ones willing to take a dirt nap for the benefit of mother earth.

[giotto]

1. Coffee. Apparently six-cups-a-day off this wake-up beverage can clock “up more than 175 kilograms of CO2 each year. That’s the equivalent of a flight across Europe—from London to Rome, say.”

“Add milk, and the methane belched by dairy cows means you increase your coffee’s climate-changing emissions by more than a third.”..

These people are certifiably insane.

[dead]

Just making excuses for the unbearable smelliness of hippies.

[elcid1970]

I thought bidets are used in countries where people bathe infrequently (in Germany, once a week).

Reminds me of a Monty Python skit about patriotism and xenophobia:

“And you can keep your fastidious Continental bidets, Mrs. Foreigner! Mrs. Britain knows how to keep HER feet clean!”

;^)

[Brett66]

I’m so glad I’m not part of this cult, I don’t have to obey any of their edicts.

[ConservativeMan55]

BUMP!!!!!!!!

Post of the day!

[beelzepug]

“Now, Dr. Reay didn’t actually advocate a reduction in showers as a solution to climate change, but Lewis Page over at The Register argues that it’s a natural next conclusion”

For once, the French are ahead of the curve.

[Night Hides Not]

1. Coffee. Apparently six-cups-a-day off this wake-up beverage can clock “up more than 175 kilograms of CO2 each year. That’s the equivalent of a flight across Europe—from London to Rome, say.”

Still less than one of Pelosi's taxpayer-paid flights from DC to SF.

[BlueLancer]

I don’t believe that the author, whose picture is with the article, is the one advocating these “reasons”. My reaction was that she was making fun of whoever it was that had done so.

[Tamar1973]

This is THEIR religion. They are free to follow it to their hearts content.

Including exercising their right not to breed and to euthanize themselves as soon as they are no longer "useful" to the rest of us, but they should leave me and my family alone!

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[TruthConquers]

Agreed!!!

[TC Rider]

I always remember the old sci-fi post apocalyptic films where everything was dirty, gritty and sweaty. Think “Soylent Green”, “Blade Runner”, etc.

Now we know, it was a choice shoved down people's throats by the Greens.

[CodeToad]

Liberals = Smelly Hippies with dirty bottoms.