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 ...
I want to know who it is who's sniffing scented toilet paper...
Well, by then they'll be using the three sea shells.
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.
Try the plastic alternative, @$$hole.
Besides, trees, ESPECIALLY pulpwood trees, are a 100% renewable resource.
“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.
Eat lots of corn on the cob.
Save the cob.
The next thing they will be complaining about is that Americans use too much water to wash their bums.
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?
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.
Bad memories, eh?
I can't imagine they failed to address every bloody aspect of our lives.
Oh, aren’t you the clever one. ;O)
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.
"Watch your cornhole, bud."
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!
Yeah..we all need to use our left hand also..
USASTAN.
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