Washington Post: Take Cold Showers To Save The Planet
Save the planet, freeze your balls off in the shower.
That's the message from the Washington Post's "Climate Solutions" reporter Allyson Chiu, a typical lib who went from covering the 2020 Donald Trump political campaign to telling Americans they're killing Earth by scrubbing their balls with hot water.
"While there are home improvements that can help you cut back on the energy it takes to heat water, including installing a heat pump water heater, one easy solution is to switch to cold water," Chiu pens as if she's writing straight out of the Sierra Club playbook.
Chiu also tells people that they should do laundry with cold water, they shouldn't pre-rinse dishes being loaded into a dishwasher and, if they do pre-rise, it should be done with cold water.
10 months ago, Chiu reported that Americans should keep their air conditioners set at 76 or 77 and then five to 10 times higher when they're not home. Five months ago, Chiu was advising people, via the Biden government agencies that pump her full of this information, advised people to keep their furnaces set at 68-70 and 7-10 degrees lower when they weren't home.
Allyson, a native of Guam who was trained in journalism at Northwestern, is also pro "No Mow May", pro not raking your leaves, she has a problem with gas leaf blowers, tells people to use recycled toilet paper, wants people to eat plants instead of meat, thinks people should work four-day weeks to help the planet, and was a COVID bro back in the day.
But it's her latest effort/cause – the cold shower – the really has people talking. There have been 2400 comments left for her on the post.
"Here in Alaska my tap water comes out at 38 degrees. Cold shower? Knock yourself out," one woman writes.
"I think global warming is deadly real and we need to change behaviors etc., but this article is a good example of terrible, unrealistic. naive and counter-productive messaging," another reader writes. "Saving the planet does not require us all taking cold showers. And the carbon savings is virtually nothing. However, the damage to actually convincing people to use less energy by telling them this is substantial."
Why hasn't Allyson Chiu reported on her own experience taking a cold shower for a month to save the planet?
I checked the Chiu archives at the Post and I can't find a single story where Chiu took a cold shower in the name of saving Earth. Not a month. Not a week. Not a single day.
Shouldn't these climate solution reporters tell us what we're missing and how to adjust? This would be the perfect time for Chiu to lead from the front. Report on it. How is it taking a cold shower on a cold day when it's 68 degrees in a house in the middle of winter?
Allyson is a fraud. That's why she's not reporting on her own life and her cold showers. She's taking hot showers and she's enjoying running her air conditioner at whatever temperature she wants.
It would be interesting to hear from Allyson on who she thinks this form of journalism is serving.
As one of Allyson's readers wrote so eloquently, "One of the best features of civilization is a hot shower."
Want to yell at me or tell me how you're saving the planet by taking a cold shower? Fire away.
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