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American taste for soft toilet roll 'worse than driving Hummers'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment ^

Posted on 02/27/2009 9:11:48 AM PST by LottieDah

The tenderness of the delicate American buttock is causing more environmental devastation than the country's love of gas-guzzling cars, fast food or McMansions, according to green campaigners. At fault, they say, is the US public's insistence on extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply products when they use the bathroom.

"This is a product that we use for less than three seconds and the ecological consequences of manufacturing it from trees is enormous," said Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defence Council.

"Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution." Making toilet paper has a significant impact because of chemicals used in pulp manufacture and cutting down forests.

A campaign by Greenpeace seeks to raise consciousness among Americans about the environmental costs of their toilet habits and counter an aggressive new push by the paper industry giants to market so-called luxury brands.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; blameamericafirst; godlesscommunism; starkravingsocialism; toiletpaper
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To: AD from SpringBay
I have never tasted toilet paper, soft or hard.

I want to know who it is who's sniffing scented toilet paper...

61 posted on 02/27/2009 10:13:29 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Do you know the website number?" - VP Joe Biden)
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To: LottieDah
Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper

Well, by then they'll be using the three sea shells.


62 posted on 02/27/2009 10:13:44 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: LottieDah
"Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age."

Nah, that'll be way down on the list. For instance, future generations are certainly going to look at the way Brits traditionally make food as one of the greatest barf factors in the history of mankind, short of actually eating the puke-inducing stuff. So if this British writer is worried about what future generations are going to think, he should worry about that first.

63 posted on 02/27/2009 10:15:05 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LottieDah
"This is a product that we use for less than three seconds and the ecological consequences of manufacturing it from trees is enormous," said Allen Hershkowitz,

Try the plastic alternative, @$$hole.

Besides, trees, ESPECIALLY pulpwood trees, are a 100% renewable resource.

64 posted on 02/27/2009 10:15:36 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy. FUBO!)
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To: In veno, veritas

“What is meant by “virgin wood?” I am assuming that it means that it came from trees and not recycled products. I would therefore state that our taste for this type of toilet paper increases forests, not decrease.
Simply consider the demand; since we demand it more, there will be more trees planted to supply our demand. On the other hand, if we preferred recycled material, then there would be less incentive to plant trees to supply the demand for “virgin wood.”

The left has never been able to comprehend that trees are a CROP (just like corn, wheat, etc...) If we would treat them that way there wouldn’t be any shortages. We would simply plant and harvest them the same way we do any other crop.


65 posted on 02/27/2009 10:16:50 AM PST by Brookhaven (Until the three traitors are removed from the Republican Party, I am no longer a Republican.)
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To: LottieDah

I have a video response to this nonsense.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sp8PzgY7XA


66 posted on 02/27/2009 10:18:49 AM PST by RobRoy
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To: Dooderbutt

Eat lots of corn on the cob.

Save the cob.


67 posted on 02/27/2009 10:19:38 AM PST by RobRoy
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To: LottieDah
Please--please!--don't use the word "taste" when referring to toilet roll.
68 posted on 02/27/2009 10:20:09 AM PST by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

The next thing they will be complaining about is that Americans use too much water to wash their bums.


69 posted on 02/27/2009 10:20:33 AM PST by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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To: Brookhaven

A while back some neohippy scumbag gavce me crap about logging in Vermont. They had very little to say when i informed them that in the 1830’s the state was less than 25% forested, and now it’s over 65% forested. Where did all those trees come from?


70 posted on 02/27/2009 10:23:30 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy. FUBO!)
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To: LottieDah

They will NEVER stop complaining about something. Plastic grocery bags, toilet paper, diapers. The list is literally endless as to what neocommies will bitch about.


71 posted on 02/27/2009 10:24:37 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy. FUBO!)
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To: Petronski
Please--please!--don't use the word "taste" when referring to toilet roll.

Bad memories, eh?

72 posted on 02/27/2009 10:25:12 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy. FUBO!)
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To: LottieDah
I'll bet that hidden somewhere in the Porkulus Bill there's a requirement for only 60-grit toilet paper to be used.

I can't imagine they failed to address every bloody aspect of our lives.

73 posted on 02/27/2009 10:25:23 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: Travis T. OJustice

Oh, aren’t you the clever one. ;O)


74 posted on 02/27/2009 10:29:38 AM PST by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: In veno, veritas
...our taste for this type of toilet paper increases forests, not decrease.

There is an important principle at work here. Enterprise searches for new and better ways of using natural resources to meet demand. Where there is no enterprise there is no desire to meet demand. Those who oppose unfettered enterprise insist upon controlling demand.

Restricting water use is a case in point. There is enough water on the planet to meet all demand forever. Providing water requires an enterprising spirit. No such spirit exists in the municiple water industry. All efforts are geared to restricting use. Environmentalism also favors restricting demand, not satisfying demand.

Environmentalism is a perfect fit for bureaucracy. Both are predicated on control and limiting activity. Both are contrary to the human spirit. They are ativistic and oriented to death.

75 posted on 02/27/2009 10:39:39 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (He is the son of soulless slavers, not the son of soulful slaves.)
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To: LottieDah
Corn cobs will be in high demand! < /sarcasm>
76 posted on 02/27/2009 10:58:48 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (It took 250 years to make the USA great and 30 days for BO to tear it down.)
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To: Radl

"Watch your cornhole, bud."

77 posted on 02/27/2009 11:01:17 AM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: LottieDah

First they came for the DDT and I didn’t care because no one I knew had malaria.

Next they came for the Hummers and I shrugged because I didn’t drive one.

Then they took the good nose cone foam. I ignored it because I’m not an astronaut.

Then they came for my buttwipe and I was all alone because there was no one left to give a sh$t!


78 posted on 02/27/2009 11:04:08 AM PST by pa_dweller (Absurdity is everywhere, you've just become inured to it.)
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To: LottieDah

79 posted on 02/27/2009 11:07:14 AM PST by IrishPennant ("We're surrounded...That simplifies our problem.")
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To: dfwgator

Yeah..we all need to use our left hand also..
USASTAN.


80 posted on 02/27/2009 11:07:41 AM PST by Oldexpat
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