Yes, first it was Sheryl Crow telling us to use only one square. Now it’s the far left Natural Resource Defense Council telling us that we have to toughen it up and stop using those darned extra soft two ply sheets. They claim that our buts are doing more damage with these little squares of softness than driving a hummer. Of course, neither one is doing much damage and both are doing a lot of good. (God bless Hummers and soft bathroom tissue.) Here’s what NRDC is saying:
“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.”
Well if the NRDC wants us to stop squeezing the Charmin for the sake of future generations, my question is, what have future generations ever done for us?
