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As long as everything we use from the world is called a “Natural Resource” we’re going to look at it as a “resource” and as my grandfather used to say with sorrow about the human being, “See alot take a lot, see a little take it all.”
In reality it’s not a “resource” it’s a forest, a sea, a habitat of one sort or another.
Use the newspaper instead of the soft potty tissue.
Not me. Our family uses TP made from recycled paper and the stuff is much softer than it used to be. Of course, having lived abroad and used TP in China and Russia, it’s not hard to find even TP made from recycled paper soft. What’s hard is finding it locally produced.
you people don’t use the 3 shells yet?
So it is back to corn cobs and old issues of Sears Roebuck eh?
The article mentioned how in other countries, particularly Europe they use the scratchier stuff, but they didn’t mention that in a lot of countries they use water, which will leave you cleaner and use less energy over all.
Bring back the bidet I say.
“the United States, which is the largest market worldwide for toilet paper”
christ, is there anything we’re not the largest market for?
The Canadian practice of cutting old growth is awlful. However, the vast majority of the paper made in the USA is made from trees grown on plantations for that purpose.
Its like corn. If everybody stopped eating or making ethanol from corn the result would not be more corn it would be less corn as people would stop planting it and use the land for other purposes.
When people chanting outside about foie gras decide to annoy larger numbers of people, this is the type of thing they come up with.
I like my ass. I use the good stuff. And will continue to use the good stuff, thank you very much.
I’m with Fifty-Two-Eighty. I will not feel guilty for not wanting sore ass.
I wipe my ass with foie gras.
What are flushable wet wipes made out of? I use those. Dry paper, no matter how plush, isn’t going to clean up everything.
@6: we’re not the world’s largest market for bidets. because of homophobia, probs.
@8 and @9…..
The good stuff? That’s exactly the spoon-fed American mentality that’s utterly disgraceful.
Do me a favor- bend over and take a wad of sand paper and wipe that soft baby’s arse of yours!
Then proceed to realize that using shit paper made from recycled pulp is the very least thing you can do to join the human race.
Isn’t Costco the biggest seller out here? Anyone have the 411 on their TP?
Why oh why hasn’t anyone invented those three shells that they had in that film that had a realitic vison of our future, “Demolition Man”?
Baby seals are the best! Hard to flush though.
@13, well, at least that explains why you’re so cranky.
How much paper is used to print out things at work?
Seriously, you guys need to look at things in proportion.
Most people still aren’t using ANY recycled paper at work, and changing that would have a far far far greater impact.
(says someone who led the demand side of the battle for recycled paper a long time ago and has chopped down more trees than you’ll likely ever touch in your lifetime)
So this must be the reason why Whole Foods doesn’t sell the cushy stuff. I just thought there were being dacronian.
Dacron is overrated.
North Americans would rather have a slightly more comfortable asshole than save the old-growth forests.
Death to humans!
You know, if you’d just stop breeding, maybe we could go a day or two without one of our relatives being murdered just cause you’re too lazy to use sponges on sticks …
you wipe?
You know, old growth forests are actually carbon neutral because of all the dead, decaying stuff on the forest floor. Cutting them down and replanting them is not such a bad thing.
@18 – Who prints anything out at work anymore?
@24 – Nonsense. The floor of an old growth forest is very much alive.
It is replanted forests, with new trees planted too closely together, that block out the light and choke off all life below.
We shall eventually do the same with the New York Times, Mr Savage.