Colin Beavan is going without many things this year, including toilet paper. You can find previous Newsbusters and Business & Media Institute stories about Beavan here and here. His "No Impact" experiment includes going without any carbon-emitting transportation, electricity, paper products, packaging, new clothes, refrigeration ... you get the idea.
But on May 10 ABC "Nightline" host Cynthia McFadden said Beavan is doing it all "to avoid harming the earth." Too bad that's not entirely true. Beavan is conducting the "radical" year-long experiment because he is a writer of historical nonfiction and it was "the only one of four possibilities his agent thought would sell," according to The New York Times.
So his environmental project is actually a capitalistic endeavor, but nowhere did McFadden or Sam Champion say that Beavan is writing a book. And they had more than nine minutes to mention it.
Beavan may be sparing trees this year, by going without the toilet paper. But it is only a matter of time before his book is printed, bound, published and shipped all over the world. Talk about eco-hypocrisy.
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"But it is only a matte
May 11, 2007 - 15:57 ET by zf"But it is only a matter of time before his book is printed, bound, published and shipped all over the world."
Oh, I think that might be a tad optimistic and over-ambitious for this particular tome... <g>
lol
May 11, 2007 - 20:26 ET by dahliatraverslol
Eco tablets
May 11, 2007 - 20:37 ET by acumenNot to mention the hassle of printing on enviro-friendly clay tablets, bound with only vines that have succumbed to a natural death and shipped by eco-safe horse/buggy, sailboats all over the world.
Yeah, I'd say that is a bit ambitious...
I like that. And the town
May 11, 2007 - 20:45 ET by dahliatraversI like that. And the town crier would do the advertising.
I've heard of "delicio
May 11, 2007 - 16:03 ET by Tom1969caI've heard of "delicious irony" before ...
... but this irony has whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles on top! *LOL*
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"Al Gore never shuts up; it's just occasionally we have to hood him like a falcon so we can get some sleep..."Denis Miller (on Al Gore)
Save a tree...don't buy his b
May 11, 2007 - 16:10 ET by bigtimerSave a tree...don't buy his book!
Spread the message!
Hypocrites all.
After the Sears catalog runs out
May 11, 2007 - 16:12 ET by RJThanks! This is a funny followup, with a double punch that exposes the phony pious environmentalism of both ABC and Beavan.
On a positive note, he can use the pages of his book after the Sears catalog runs out....
RJ,LOL-After the catalo
May 11, 2007 - 16:17 ET by Dave RRJ,
LOL-After the catalogue is gone, there are always corn cobs. After all, that's what was used before there was TP in the first place, or so I have always heard. :-)
This republic will not survive the continued neglect of its people.-
Neal Boortz.
Well, personally, I'v always wondered about those
May 11, 2007 - 16:29 ET by RJWell, personally, whenever I've heard about using the Sears catalog, I've wondered how effective those slick pages can be. Kinda thought the cobs might work better....never had the hankerin' to test my theory, though.....
Or, we could all emulate that
May 11, 2007 - 18:07 ET by ThisnThatOr, we could all emulate that diaper-wearing astronut. She mignt be on the leading edge of a national trend, here.
Isn't it interesting that eve
May 11, 2007 - 17:04 ET by ArchConservativeIsn't it interesting that every time you see a car with about 100 bumper stickers on it, it belongs to a liberal? All that paper and all those trees chopped down just to say their inane ramblings. Hyprocracy thy name is liberals
"Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
- President George W Bush September 2001 speech to a joint session of Congress.
That's because only liberals
May 11, 2007 - 17:07 ET by zfThat's because only liberals are allowed to enjoy the fruits and advantages of industrial society, not us common plebs.
It's also because they need them as crib sheets
May 11, 2007 - 17:16 ET by RJIt's also because they need them as crib sheets. Your average leftist is only capable of arguing in Bumper Sticker Speak.
And for the enviromentally &q
May 11, 2007 - 17:31 ET by zfAnd for the enviromentally "conscious" they're also useful as a toilet paper substitute...
Hey now, I have 9 bumper stic
May 11, 2007 - 17:38 ET by thefirststrikeHey now, I have 9 bumper stickers on my car...so go easy! haha. But mine are pro-conservative, pro-gun, anti-environmentalist etc. Stuff like "PETA- People Eating Tasty Animals" and "Liberal (def.); a person so open minded their brains have fallen out" and "Peace through superior firepower" complete with a B-52 as part of the peace sign. Of course, that car also doesn't run any more, so no one gets to see the $40 worth of slogans I posted on my bumper :-(
Bummer too, because I live in a VERY liberal town in Idaho (the only one basically) and when I put them on there I was REALLY looking forward to causing some serious mental anguish whenever I drove around town!! hahaha! But now the only people who see them are those who drive by my house and see the car at the curb.
I would be ecstatic if anyone could tell me how to successfully get them off in good enough condition to put on another vehicle!! haha.
Thefirststrike
Hrm...
May 11, 2007 - 17:42 ET by Mr. Bishop"Bummer too, because I live in a VERY liberal town in Idaho" -- Boise, huh? At first, I thought Moscow -- but come on, let's be realisitic here -- Boise is the only real liberal town in Idaho (I graduated from Shelley High in Shelley, ID). ;)
"Stop global warming! Asphyxiate a liberal!" - Show us how far you're willing to go to stop "global warming"
Dude... lighten up..
Oh, it is not Boise. So if Bo
May 11, 2007 - 17:49 ET by thefirststrikeOh, it is not Boise. So if Boise is liberal too, that makes 2 libby towns in Idaho, because Moscow is DEFINITELY liberal! We have an ongoing peace demonstration EVERY Saturday in the Square; and we have teachers who have actually told my wife tha it isn't their job to teach our kids, it is ours; and we have a principal who ends meetings when you dare challenge or talk bad about the teachers. Those are just a few examples. Moscow is VERY liberal!
AH-HAH!!
May 11, 2007 - 18:11 ET by Mr. BishopSo my first intuitive guess was actually correct... Moscow (with a name like Moscow, how could you not be liberal?). I must say, I was very pleased with graduating from the Southeastern part of Idaho... much nicer people then any liberal town I have ever lived in. It's odd -- liberals are suppose to be some bastion of tolerance, yet it's the liberal towns that seem to be the worst at actually being nice... hehe.
"Stop global warming! Asphyxiate a liberal!" - Show us how far you're willing to go to stop "global warming"
Dude... lighten up..
Hi firststrike I love the b
May 11, 2007 - 22:52 ET by jmad627Hi firststrike I love the bumper sticker, "PETA-People Eating Tasty Animals." I've never seen that one before.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!
His book will be intellectu
May 11, 2007 - 18:06 ET by zhombreHis book will be intellectual TP for people with sh*t for brains.
Publicist
May 11, 2007 - 19:47 ET by allanfThe real question is, "who is this guys publicist"? I think she is doing the best cam job since the War of the Worlds broadcast.
Carbon-Lite Cavemen
May 11, 2007 - 20:55 ET by Parker1227Yes folks, you to can save the world by living like a (pre)stone-age caveman. No fire, no mass produced food, no modern medicine. No planes, no cars no bicycles. No steel for knives, nails or building girders. No electricity, no computers, no telephones . No hot showers or running water (unless you live near a creek). No emergency rooms. No science, no literacy. And on and on.All of these benefits of modernity add either directly or indirectly to one's carbon foot print - that evil threat to the world, carbon dioxide. But if you are truly committed to the cause, you must make the ultimate sacrifice and try to breath as little as possible (well no exhaling anyway).Welcome to Sierra Club hell, where misanthropy is just another way of saying that you care. (Save the animals - eat a PETA member)
Parker, you left out with t
May 11, 2007 - 21:08 ET byParker, you left out with the 35 year life-span that's only 45% of the co2 of a 78 year span
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
I guess Pepe LePeew is goin
May 11, 2007 - 22:37 ET by jmad627I guess Pepe LePeew is going to have a little competition.
Hey Beavan, I got some TP credits for you to buy.......cheap!!!!!! LOL LOL!!
Note to Cynthia McF, Diane S
May 12, 2007 - 11:07 ET by dahliatraversNote to Cynthia McF, Diane S and Cameron what's-her-name:
No need to just sit back and marvel. A life of Voluntary Simplicity is well within your grasp.
Like all liberals, he saves
May 13, 2007 - 12:45 ET by riff_raffLike all liberals, he saves toilet paper by using the constitution to wipe his a**. That's all liberals think the constitution is good for.