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Posted on 04/23/2010 3:33:32 AM PDT by ICAB9USA
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2010/04/22/cbs-early-show-guilts-viewers-give-bottled-water-earth-day
In the 8:30AM ET half hour of Thursday's CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez introduced an Earth Day segment by proclaiming: "Americans throw away more than 30 billion plastic bottles every year....We have a film maker, Stephanie Soechtig, here with us, she has a documentary out called 'Tapped,' which looks the impact that all those bottles have had on the environment."
Rodriguez invited Soechtig to explain her mission: "What has your message been?" Soechtig responded: "we've been trying to educate people that bottled water's one of the greatest marketing scams of all time. 40% of bottled water is really just filtered tap water. And every day we throw away 30 million single serve bottles of water." A headline on-screen read: "Early's Earth Day; Filmmaker Says 'Get Off the Bottle!'"
Soechtig warned of the "tremendous impact" of bottled water on the environment: "there's a soup of plastic in the north Pacific that's twice the size of Texas, that's just littered with plastic. So this type of plastic getting out in the environment is hurting our sea life, it's hurting us....plastic is a byproduct of oil. So from the production of the plastic all the way through the disposal, it just has a tremendous carbon footprint."
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Some enterprising individual ought to get a giant rubber tarp, cover up that mass of floating plastic debris, and open up a nice big, fresh-aired open space for the homeless.
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I’ll buy a 6 pack and throw them away for the he** of it.
The new Sargasso Sea?
That’s it I’m Buying a case of bottled water and some tuna free Dolphin meat for Earth Day!
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Mel
I FART methane in your direction SEEbs... a gift from me on earth day.
LLS
Why don’t they point out that one of Earthdays founders (Ira Einhorn) was a Murderer and supported by Arlen Specter and even some folks in the Newt Gingrich camp?
Yeah, but he WAS nice enough to put her in a nice suitcase. /sarc
Genealogic! Dude...it's like Damien! *puff*
Like to see them prove there is enough bottles to cover TX. More phony stats. Wonder how many cases of bottled water DNCBS has in their Green Room?
Pray for America
I use a landscape edging product that is made from recycled milk/water bottles. The primary source of fleese sold in all the best outdoor clothing catalogs comes from 100 water/milk bottles that make strands of fiber that keep us warm in the cold. Water bottles, when recycled are great for business!!
It's amazing what passes for thought in these envirowhacko brains. What "carbon footprint" used to mean was an amount of greenhouse gas produced by a process, person, country, or whatever. The creation of plastic has a relatively small carbon footprint, generally smaller than the footprint to deliver it (or even to recycle it). The carbon footprint of a swath of plastic in the ocean is essentially zero, or meaningless. The plastic floating on the water does not contribute to or subtract from greenhouse gases.
Don't forget ....... burning a few car tires is a nice touch.
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_________ and the sicko stuffed his girl friend in a trunk.
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That is true..... and it lasts forever (almost).
I hear you ..........
These morons not only want us wiping our asses with leaves, but also standing in the rain with our tongues out to take a drink.
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