…And Then They Came For My Toilet Paper
The drum beat against toilet paper is continuing, this time by those oh so responsible and respectable folks at Greenpeace, who are well known for their rational actions:
The issue over tissue in the bathroom – the really super-soft stuff – is more like the fight about the big SUVs loved by many Americans.
Anti-green, according to environmentalists. Politically incorrect. Why should Americans use luxurious toilet paper made from old-growth trees when much of the world gets by with a far more basic and often recycled product?
Why should we flush redwoods, so to speak?
So Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council and other environmental groups have pushed manufacturers such as Kimberly-Clark (Cottonelle) and Procter & Gamble (Charmin) to stop using wood from virgin forests to make tissue products.
But, of course, they just can’t stop there. They can’t make it about saving the forests, which would be an entirely creditable goal in itself. It has to be climate “change”.
Environmentalists said old trees were being cut down when recycling alternatives exist. And it’s not just about trees, they said. It’s about carbon dioxide and ecosystems necessary to wildlife.
“The large old trees are the ones that do the most good,” said Bill Grotts, head of the Heartland Tree Alliance, which is part of Kansas City’s Bridging the Gap.
“They absorb the most water because they have more leaf area and provide the most cooling effect.”
So, trees offset through nature what Mankind is doing by driving SUVs and not wanting to tear their delicate backsides up with bargain brand triple recycled sandpaper, er, toilet paper. I want socialists out of my bathroom. If they had left it at the “save forests, forests are good” part then I would have signed up but they just had to over-egg the pudding and therefore put my back up. Meanwhile, an interesting new study:
They unravelled records of atmosphere, temperature and ice-cap formation 33.6 million years ago, when the Earth cooled from a greenhouse without ice caps, into something quite similar to our present day.
Pearson’s work contains a couple of remarkable results. First the greenhouse atmosphere pre-cooling contained a CO2 concentration of 900 parts per million by volume, or more than three times that of the Earth in pre-industrial days. Second, while the cooling of the Earth took place over a time-span of around 200,000 years, the atmospheric CO2 first dropped in association with the cooling, then rose to around 1100ppmv and remained high for 200,000 years while the Earth cooled further and remained in its new ice ages cycle.
The climate alarmists still haven’t done more than create a tenuous and irresponsible link between Mankind’s output of CO2 and rising temperatures. They just assume there is one. The science is showing that to be wrong.
Happy days are here again
Express Review on Izal Medicated Strong Toilet Paper
by lindylil – written on 31/10/09
Rating:
I cannot believe that Izal toilet paper is still on sale. It invokes memories of outside loos at school with a similar product having ‘Council Property Now Wash Your Hands Please’ printed on it.
On a cold day; facing the prospect of having to go out to the toilet was bad enough; but wiping one’s nether regions with the equivalent of cheap writing paper was too much of an ask. Hard loo roll has absolutely no functional use whatsoever. To inflict it on the most delicate area of one’s body is the preserve of the masochist. ” :-E
I think you should be able to keep using your super soft toilet paper and the best way to do that is to not need so much of it by getting a Hand Bidet Sprayer from Bathroomsprayers.com. With one of these you’ll be cleaner, greener and you’ll save green at the same time when you go to stock up on the tp.
If you’d gone to Eton you’d have had someone available to wipe it for you. And not with the poor-man’s greaseproof paper available in the local Comp either.
I owe you an apology, Guest. You know when you look at a URL and wonder if it’s Safe For Work or if you are being stitched up? Well it appears it is safe and I have a dirty mind…and the worst that could have happened was if someone had looked over my shoulder and wondered why I was reading a page about Rectal Itch. I thank you for the link from the bottom of my….bottom.