AGW Today: Now Toilet Paper Is Bad
Posted on February 28, 2009
All you tender bottomed folks listen up: you are destroying Gaia!
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.
OK, this is an easy one, True Believers. Switch to 100% recylcled brands, and us as little as possible. When you use the can away from home, make sure that the TP is 100% recycled! Better yet, use leaves.
Via Van Helsing.
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If the watermelons, green on the outside but red on the inside, don’t like toilet paper, let them use corn cobs like our grandparents did. till then, they can stifle themselves.
Did Sheryl Crow pay for this study?
They could use pine cones, too.
I always heard that about the corn cobs… is that true or more like the stories of walking to school uphill both ways in 40 feet of snow with no shoes?