The New York Times recently argued that abandoning the bathtub and ditching social hygiene can save the planet. Unfortunately, that’s no joke.
The deranged Times story was headlined “See Fewer People. Take Fewer Showers.”
Times “breaking news” reporter Maria Cramer propagandized how a preschool administrative assistant named Robin Harper allegedly has only “shower[ed] once a week” since the pandemic.
In Cramer’s estimation, “The new practice felt environmentally virtuous, practical and freeing. And it has stuck.”
Cramer cheered how “[t]here are now indications that [showering less] has caused some Americans to become more spartan when it comes to ablutions.”
Cramer’s story made as much sense as a 2020 Times op-ed headlined: “Stop Using Toilet Paper.” [Emphasis added.]
Cramer even lambasted the practice of “wash[ing] more frequently” as an “American obsession with cleaning.”
She blamed Americans’ “obsession” on “[p]lumbing and upward mobility.” How dare Americans seek cleanliness, right Cramer?
Later in the piece, Cramer unleashed climate scare theater:
The individual choice to stop showering or bathing daily is a critical one to make at a time when environmentalists are calling on countries to take more action against climate change, Mr. McCarthy, the environmentalist [who bathed ‘once a week,’] said, [emphasis added].
McCarthy happens to be a spokesperson for the eco-extremist group Extinction Rebellion.
Protestors with the Extinction Rebellion D.C. branch were reported to have dumped cow poop in front of the White House to protest Biden’s climate agenda for not being extreme enough.
McCarthy wailed on his website that “[t]he global environmental catastrophes and the destruction of social justice are in danger of overwhelming us if we do not act immediately.” Talk about having a climate conniption fit.
But Cramer continued and propagandized that “Still, [Lafayette College Professor of Environmental Science Andrea] Armstrong said, it would take a huge number of people changing their bathing habits to make a difference in carbon emissions.”
Perhaps everyone should just stop taking showers altogether. Would that be ideal for the eco-fanatics at The Times?
Conservatives are under attack. Contact The New York Times at 800-698-4637 and demand they label Cramer’s eco-propaganda as opinion.
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There you go again … the New York Times. Hopefully the staff leads by example.
I had gone to Europe many times on business over a few decades and have smelt the results of infrequent bathing and I must say, NO THANKS! Just as I won’t join the anti-red meat I’m not joining this campaign either.
I prefer to take Baths just before bedtime every night i take morning showers when it have to go some where i had shower two hours ago and i prefer warmer water
I used to work in a group that had an engineer (not married) that only bathed once every ten days. My nose told me his exact bathing interval. I told my lead not to put me on any project were I had to work with him.
Infrequent bathing is part of a lower standard of living typical of what the climate alarmists are trying for force on us. It can also be unhealthy causing different skin conditions to develop.
Just imagine all the Trees that could be saved if we all quit reading liberal rags like the New York Times
I tried to be a snowflake once, but the vibrations in the eco-echo-chamber only made me melt.
There must be a spelling mistake – isn’t it EckStinkShun Rebellion?