Little to do About Nothing

If memory serves me correctly, it was about 2006 when the environmentalist groups began complaining that our use of paper products, specifically multi-layered toilet tissue, was adversely impacting the environment. In recent weeks, the alarm has been renewed. Overuse of any natural resource is arguably worthy of serious discussion. We should make every effort to responsibly manage every aspect of our natural resources. The exponential growth in population throughout the world, which is perhaps the largest adverse environmental impact factor of all, will inevitably exhaust all natural resources at some future point in time. But apparently that’s something far too difficult to control and paper seems a less challenging target.
The wonder of it all is why the “green” people put so much energy into something like rationing toilet tissue instead of focusing on something more immediately critical? Something like our ability to grow enough food to feed our ever increasing population? Over the past ten years, as much at 1000 square miles of arable land on which we formerly produced food in California’s San Joaquin Valley has been decimated. Farm land destroyed to construct housing and lay pavement to create nothing more than residential comfort for commuters from the San Francisco bay area who can’t afford to live in the city. Reducing our ability to produce food and increasing the run-off that pollutes our waterways.
If “green” people want to do something meaningful they might want to put more emphasis on something more critical than the amount of paper being used in the manufacture of toilet tissue