Eco-Religionists Think Two-Ply Toilet Paper Worse Than Driving Hummers

I have said it before, and I will say it again. Eco-worshipping whackjobs are self-loathing copromaniacs who are obsessed with their own bodily waste. I have documented previously how they want to restrict everyone to one piece of toilet paper, want to flush the toilet only once per week, and even reusing tampons.  They even want to ban flushing toilets altogether.   They even made a battery that requires you to pee into it to power it, getting urine all over your fingers.  And now the latest pile of crap (pun intended) to come from environmentalists is this idiotic piece in the Guardian about how Americans are cutting down Virgin Forests so we can wipe our asses.  And it is somehow worse than driving all of our Hummers.

From the Guardian:

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.

More than 98% of the toilet roll sold in America comes from virgin forests, said Hershkowitz. In Europe and Latin America, up to 40% of toilet paper comes from recycled products.

“I really do think it is overwhelmingly an American phenomenom,” said Hershkowitz. “People just don’t understand that softness equals ecological destruction.”

I don’t think Hershkowitz understands how forestry works.  We cut down trees for lots of things-  firewood, paper products, building materials, and yes, soft 2-ply asswipe.  But what this fool fails to realize is that these “virgin forests” are replanted as soon as they are harvested.  We have more forests in the US today than we had when the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock.  And trees are completely renewable and sustainable.  Aren’t those the holy-grail buzzwords that eco-religionists like to bandy about?  Other countries have to rely on recycled products much more because they simply suck at managing their forests.  In the US, we are experts on it.