Squaring Off For a Fight

Sheryl Crow is a singer. A fairly good singer and composer. And a breast cancer survivor. And no longer with Lance Armstrong. I'm not certain where in that litany things went wrong for her, but apparently she has lost her mind.

Sheryl Crow and a her friend, Laurie David have been touring the country to tell people personally that they are wasting energy. It's not clear if the waste of energy is powering the bus to get from location to location or the cars, vans, and SUVs who powered their owners to the large stadiums where the two impart wisdom on global warming to a rapt audience.

Crow is a college graduate with a major in music. I doubt there was much science involved in that type of degree. Laurie David is political activist who wants to stop global warming. She does not practice what she preaches and has been fired from jobs for her environmental dis-acumen? un-acumen? poor acumen? And no one can tell me why, if humans are responsible for Earth's getting warmer, then why oh why, is Mars also getting warmer.

Neither of these women seem to have a clue – to that or many other issues.

I live very close to MeadWestvaco's South Carolina holdings. I've watched the trees cut down and noted that the hardwood trees are spared and only the pines are taken down. Then the land looks raw and ugly. But, nature tends toward life and the forest becomes a field. Then the field is planted again. Trees grow again. Fast growing pines. The only way for a paper manufacturing concern to continue growing is to continue growing the trees.

There is a wide difference between cutting down old growth forests for larger houses. However, that's a different issue and why we need more square footage while family size is shrinking can be an entire book.

Cutting down pine trees, fast growing trees, rotating crops – as it were – is quite different. While it is okay to want to save paper and recycling is a great idea. One square of toilet paper at the end of 15 minute "reading session" is too much to ask. Even 2-3 pieces of paper would be insufficient to the task.

And then there is the awful tissue paper type toilet paper that is in public bathrooms. It is narrower than regular stuff, one-ply rather than two, and melts if it is anywhere near moisture.

I can only assume the Sheryl Crow is full of shit. If she weren't, she would know that after getting rid of that stuff, more than one square is absolutely essential.