"I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting."
- Sheryl Crow
Singer Sheryl Crow has said a ban on using too much toilet paper should be introduced to help the environment.
Crow has suggested using "only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required".
The 45-year-old, who made the comments on her website, has just toured the US on a biodiesel-powered bus to raise awareness about climate change. She teamed up with environmental activist Laurie David for the shows. The pair targeted 11 university campuses to persuade students to help combat the world's environmental problems.
"I have spent the better part of this tour trying to come up with easy ways for us all to become a part of the solution to global warming," Crow wrote. "Although my ideas are in the earliest stages of development, they are, in my mind, worth investigating.
Laurie David's husband, Seinfeld creator Larry David, also appeared. Crow has also commented on her website about how she thinks paper napkins "represent the height of wastefulness". She has designed a clothing line with what she calls a "dining sleeve". The sleeve is detachable and can be replaced with another "dining sleeve" after the diner has used it to wipe his or her mouth.
The shows involved a short set by the singer, a talk by David and segments of Al Gore's environmental film An Inconvenient Truth.
2 comments:
I guess this is what they mean by a "liberal wipeout". If they all do this we will at least be able to identify them now by smell as well as by their inane utterings. It sounds like a good plan. I hope Crow and her nutbuckets adopt it. Yuk!
After attending a carbon sequesturing meeting on the carbon credit market, I understood the speaker to say that young trees sequester carbon better than old, established trees. If that is true, certainly cutting trees and replanting trees would seem a reasonable plan. Therefore, the use of paper products should aid in reducing carbon. The other issue in regard to the cloth napkins: they would need to be washed with warm to hot water (Power generation needed) and soap would be used to clean them (pollution problems) and if they were made of cotton certainly they would need to be ironed (does anyone know what that is) to make them presentable at table. So what is the gain?
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