[KLT]

Ping y'all

[rohry]

"Lomborg, once a committed member of Greenpeace, became disillusioned with the green movement because of what he considered its distortion of eco-science. He said people who bemoan the flush toilet are typical of the Green movement's 'tendency to focus on stuff that looks easy.'"

I just picked Lomborg's book, "The Skeptical Environmentalist." It's full of studies that debunk most environmental junk science.

For example, he points out that in the past 30 years the economy has doubled in size but major air pollutant emissions have been cut by one-third! He cites lie after lie that the greens repeat daily despite evidence to the contrary. I highly recommend it.

[bfree]

I'm a proud SUV driving, consuming American who happens to use and enjoy using the "evil" flush toilet. I also like eating tasty dead meat, and really could care less if we save the spotted owl(unless it is tasty on the grill). I guess I'm the environmentalist' worst nightmare.

[Remole]

True story. I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in a small town in the eastern part of Sierra Leone, West Africa, in the late 1970's. There was a Methodist-founded hospital in the town, and the time had come to update some of its facilities. Some of the board members of the hospital--White folk--proposed that the new bathrooms should follow the traditional "latrine" format, i.e, a hole in the ground; to which the local people on the Board said, "Do you really think that we LIKE to go to the bathroom that way? Don't you think that we, too, want the benefits of civilization, such as water-seal toilets?" And that view prevailied, and the remodeling included water-seal toilets.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Nitro]

KLT...

If I had gotten your post earlier I would have replied with much the same as anyone can see in post #3!!

Further don't beleive all the so-called Western Country's have these amenities, I could tell you about a challenging encounter I had with a French Toilette I encountered on one of my Navy visits!!

[Mr. Mojo]

A female panelist from India complained that the flush toilet encourages excessive water consumption around the world and is not ecologically friendly.

I'd imagine she thinks that using the turd depository that is the Ganges River preferable to any evil, western, and sanitary alternative.