Environmentalists Target Toilet Paper
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Energy and the Environment, Free Markets
The latest assault on the western lifestyle by the loony green fringe finds our soft toilet paper in the cross-hairs:
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?
Americans use luxurious toilet paper because America has long promoted a system of liberty and free enterprise that has made us much more prosperous than the rest of the world. Rest assured, if they could afford better, they’d be using better.
These nutbags won’t be satisfied until we’re living in the stone age again.
Hat-tip: John Stossel’s Take
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