- William Watson: The uses of eco-OCD
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When Mrs. Goode accidentally buys two-ply toilet paper, Mr. Goode spends a very ecological hour separating the plies (Using this criteria my 4 ply spouse would be branded a terrorist but at the same time she could , if she wished, bite her fingernails)W
hen I stumbled over this term, “eco-OCD,” in a brilliant article called “Green Bubbles” in a recent issue of The New Republic, I had to stop and figure out that it meant “eco obsessive-compulsive disorder.”
Exactly! The whole world, at least in the parts I’m familiar with, has become completely and compulsively obsessed with green-ness. The leader of the federal Green Party is accorded a sort of semi-saintly status by the media. Companies that used to advertise their products with beautiful women presenters now instead try to tell us how green their goods are. Even big fossil-fuel companies, not that I or anyone on this page has anything against them, are all touchy-feely-green: Their ads give you the impression they sell blue skies, high style and universal one-ness, not gasoline.
In private conversations, people practise obsessive greensmanship, green-upping each other by showing off their latest green habit, acquisition or nostrum. In the early 21st century, people spend non-neglible amounts of time considering the implications for green of their choice of light bulb or toilet tissue or cleaning product or mode of transportation or vacation destination — or perhaps we should just stay home this summer, paint the roof white and breathe as shallowly as possible.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Leftist Adopt A New Label -eco-OCD
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- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.
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This is the easy way to be green; Save Trees? Save money and the Earth and be clean at the same time! Get serious and add Bathroom Bidet Sprayers to all your bathrooms. I think Dr. Oz on Oprah said it best: "if you had pee or poop on your hand, you wouldn't wipe it off with paper, would you? You'd wash it off” Available at http://www.bathroomsprayers.com with these you won't even need toilet paper any more, just a towel to dry off! Don’t worry, you can still leave some out for guests and can even make it the soft stuff without felling guilty. It's cheap and can be installed without a plumber; and runs off the same water line to your toilet. You'll probably pay for it in a few months of toilet paper savings. And after using one of these you won't know how you lasted all those years with wadded up handfuls of toilet paper. As for water use a drought is always a concern and must be dealt with prudently but please remember that in the big picture the industrial water users always far exceed the water use of household users and in the case of toilet paper manufacture it is huge. The pollution and significant power use from that manufacturing process also contributes to global warming so switching to a hand bidet sprayer and lowering your toilet paper use is very green in multiple ways. Blog; http://jeff9.livejournal.com/932.html
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