WTF part 3

Diaperless Babies Seen As Earth-Friendly Solution
(CNSNews.com) – As environmentalists celebrate the 34th annual Earth Day, some in the green movement are now advocating “diaper-free” babies to help save the planet. Citing concerns about plastic disposable diapers clogging landfills and the amount of washing and detergents that cloth diapers require, many environmentalists are taking a page from tribal cultures and seeking to eliminate the use of the baby diapers altogether. They promote diaperless babies as a “retro, cutting-edge, environmentally friendly scheme.” Parents are urged to get in tune with their infant’s body signals and hold babies over toilets, buckets and shrubbery or any other convenient receptacle when nature calls. But one critic of environmentalists dismisses such notions as “primitive-worship.”

Sure, because all babies are consistent and give signals about pooping and peeing.

And they wonder why we call them environmental wackos?

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  • Chelle

    Um. Yeah. Sure. And next thing you know we’ll have the same disease outbreaks that they have in these 3rd world tribal cultures.

  • http://www.insingificantthoughts.com Vinny

    Good point; hadn’t even thought of that…

  • Kevin

    I know I’m a cynical, snide bastard, but this image of half a dozen tree huggers (that is meant in the kindest possible way) and thier butt naked infants giving a TV interview in the livivng room of one of our more famous celebrity / enviromentalist while the participants scurry to and fro holding the lovely little darlings over vases, potted plants and assorted candy dishes to save the (over the top) expensive carpets is just too much…..

  • http://nonannystate.blogspot.com The Other Mike S.

    I like to consider myself enviro-friendly, but this is the stupidest thing I may have ever heard in my life. Clearly, these wackos have never had kids….

  • Pete from Astoria

    I have always wondered why these same wackos never speak out against imigration, legal or not. It stands to reason that the more people there are, the more natural resources will have to be used. I quess it goes against their real agenda, which is NOT the environment.

  • balbulican

    Diaperless babies. Nonsense. The real solution is babyless diapers. I mean, new diapers are quiet, soft, clean…new babies are anything but. If we really want to clean up the planet, start with the babies. I’m sure Jonathan Swift would agree.

  • Kevin

    bal, it’s not whats coming out of the babies, its what the babies become that is the problem.

  • balbulican

    But honestly…don’t you feel that diapers have gotten a bum wrap?

  • http://nonannystate.blogspot.com The Other Mike S.

    buh dum bump…!

  • http://http:/www.robertkbrown.com/ RKB

    Sorry, but this has to be one of the fuckingest stupidest ideas I’ve heard of in a very long time. Even if you think it might be a marginally good idea, change the word “babies” to “toddlers,” because even the most advanced kid isn’t gonna figure out how to use a toilet until they’re at least two, and it becomes even more ridiculous.

    Oh, yeah. And how about that whole “getting in tune with your infant’s body signals” at, say, two or three in the morning when they wet the bed or the crib or whatever?

    Ugh. Makes me hang my head in shame…

  • http://greenbaron.blogspot.com Green Baron

    Jonathan Swift’s idea could lead the way into a radical new approach into welfare reform :) We can even break out Soylent Green jokes. I feel Americans treat kids like little tin gods, when we shoudl be treating them ike choice cuts of veal :)

    BTW, I am not having any children ;)

  • http://www.sugarraydodge.com Davey

    You know, I am the only one of my family’s three oldest children who either does not have a child or is expecting one. Maybe I should be grateful. :)

  • Chuck

    I just remember back to the night, 16 years ago, when we ate at a rather nice (and infortunately long-gone) Italian restaurant near our home, and my then-11-month old son (may have been older, not sure) enjoyed a plate of pasta bow-ties and sauce while my wife and I sampled one of the best London broils I’ve ever had. Very early the next morning, we awoke to the sound of our son, through the baby monitor, calling “Mommy. Daddy. Poopy.”

    I wnet into his room, and it looked like the poor boy had exploded in his diaper. It was all over the crib, up on the wall next to the crib, out on the floor.

    Two lessons:

    1. Much as we enjoyed “Pronto Joey’s”, we always took food for our son after that.

    2. Don’t even think about the idea of putting him to bed without “shielding”!

    -cjb-

  • http://wild-heart.net Chelle

    Um. Yeah. Sure. And next thing you know we’ll have the same disease outbreaks that they have in these 3rd world tribal cultures.

  • http://www.insingificantthoughts.com/ Vinny

    Good point; hadn’t even thought of that…

  • Kevin

    I know I’m a cynical, snide bastard, but this image of half a dozen tree huggers (that is meant in the kindest possible way) and thier butt naked infants giving a TV interview in the livivng room of one of our more famous celebrity / enviromentalist while the participants scurry to and fro holding the lovely little darlings over vases, potted plants and assorted candy dishes to save the (over the top) expensive carpets is just too much…..

  • http://nonannystate.blogspot.com/ The Other Mike S.

    I like to consider myself enviro-friendly, but this is the stupidest thing I may have ever heard in my life. Clearly, these wackos have never had kids….

  • Pete from Astoria

    I have always wondered why these same wackos never speak out against imigration, legal or not. It stands to reason that the more people there are, the more natural resources will have to be used. I quess it goes against their real agenda, which is NOT the environment.

  • balbulican

    Diaperless babies. Nonsense. The real solution is babyless diapers. I mean, new diapers are quiet, soft, clean…new babies are anything but. If we really want to clean up the planet, start with the babies. I’m sure Jonathan Swift would agree.

  • Kevin

    bal, it’s not whats coming out of the babies, its what the babies become that is the problem.

  • balbulican

    But honestly…don’t you feel that diapers have gotten a bum wrap?

  • http://nonannystate.blogspot.com/ The Other Mike S.

    buh dum bump…!

  • RKB

    Sorry, but this has to be one of the fuckingest stupidest ideas I’ve heard of in a very long time. Even if you think it might be a marginally good idea, change the word “babies” to “toddlers,” because even the most advanced kid isn’t gonna figure out how to use a toilet until they’re at least two, and it becomes even more ridiculous.

    Oh, yeah. And how about that whole “getting in tune with your infant’s body signals” at, say, two or three in the morning when they wet the bed or the crib or whatever?

    Ugh. Makes me hang my head in shame…

  • http://greenbaron.blogspot.com/ Green Baron

    Jonathan Swift’s idea could lead the way into a radical new approach into welfare reform :) We can even break out Soylent Green jokes. I feel Americans treat kids like little tin gods, when we shoudl be treating them ike choice cuts of veal :)

    BTW, I am not having any children ;)

  • http://www.sugarraydodge.com/ Davey

    You know, I am the only one of my family’s three oldest children who either does not have a child or is expecting one. Maybe I should be grateful. :)

  • Chuck

    I just remember back to the night, 16 years ago, when we ate at a rather nice (and infortunately long-gone) Italian restaurant near our home, and my then-11-month old son (may have been older, not sure) enjoyed a plate of pasta bow-ties and sauce while my wife and I sampled one of the best London broils I’ve ever had. Very early the next morning, we awoke to the sound of our son, through the baby monitor, calling “Mommy. Daddy. Poopy.”

    I wnet into his room, and it looked like the poor boy had exploded in his diaper. It was all over the crib, up on the wall next to the crib, out on the floor.

    Two lessons:

    1. Much as we enjoyed “Pronto Joey’s”, we always took food for our son after that.

    2. Don’t even think about the idea of putting him to bed without “shielding”!

    -cjb-