Good news: Cate Blanchett to fight global warming by drinking her own pee
posted at 6:15 pm on September 17, 2007 by Allahpundit
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How about it, Goracle? Make you a deal: no more conservative grumbling about private jets if…
In advance of all that, however, Blanchett will have a few blessedly domestic weeks in Sydney, where Dash will start the new school year and she and Upton will work on renovating their house. Green before it was hip—she cites Al Gore and David de Rothschild as heroes and believes that leaf blowers “sum up everything that is wrong with the human race”—the couple are trying to make the ecological footprint of the home as small as possible, installing solar panels and even a filtration system that will allow them to drink their own wastewater.
Any ideas as to why this would be more environmentally friendly than, say, using a toilet or your backyard? You’re consuming less water from the world’s supply, granted, but you’re also putting back less, too. Does a little extra nitrogen and salt on the grass somehow affect carbon levels? Or is this a simple case of a celebrity so desperate to prove her liberal virtue that she’s willing to drink piss to do so? Theories are welcome.
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What a piss poor plan.
SoulGlo on September 17, 2007 at 6:17 PM
Maybe there is a paysite involved, not that I know anything about those sorts of things…..
bbz123 on September 17, 2007 at 6:19 PM
She and Sheryl Crow must throw great dinner parties.
progressoverpeace on September 17, 2007 at 6:19 PM
I have no idea, but I’m a little amazed at the prospect of a celebrity drinking her own waste.
Esthier on September 17, 2007 at 6:20 PM
Well, she’s full of $hit, so some piss can’t hurt.
csdeven on September 17, 2007 at 6:20 PM
Would have been a better plan, but the info was “leaked” early…leaving Blanchett “flushed” and yet “relieved”.
JetBoy on September 17, 2007 at 6:22 PM
This may be a “gray-water” recycling system instead of sewage.
Still waaaaay unhealthy.
see-dubya on September 17, 2007 at 6:22 PM
They’re enamored with the smell of their own farts, so they probably think they piss champagne.
frankj on September 17, 2007 at 6:23 PM
Perhaps she is a Mel Brooks fan ( about 2:50 in)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGAgu6zI9v0&mode=related&search=
bbz123 on September 17, 2007 at 6:24 PM
Galadriel, NOOOOO!!!
infidel4life on September 17, 2007 at 6:24 PM
Jesus, that is just disgusting.
Pam on September 17, 2007 at 6:27 PM
For those of us that can’t afford those systems, will they demand we buy PISS CREDITS?
Helloyawl on September 17, 2007 at 6:27 PM
3:1 says while she does this, she signs a HUGE contract with arrowhead
Defector01 on September 17, 2007 at 6:28 PM
I wonder if she kisses her mother that mouth of hers…….just wondering.
MNDavenotPC on September 17, 2007 at 6:29 PM
the spice must flow.
jummy on September 17, 2007 at 6:29 PM
with that mouth I mean
MNDavenotPC on September 17, 2007 at 6:29 PM
I like it, Helloyawl. Al gore can flush his defective little toilets all he wants, while his company pays me pee-offsets to hold it and do a little dance for as long as I possibly can.
see-dubya on September 17, 2007 at 6:30 PM
Wow, what a Monday. Pig porkers and pee drinkers. Is it ok for me to now say that the world is going to [shinola] in a handbag?
thirteen28 on September 17, 2007 at 6:34 PM
Ugh, this is the first time I’ve been reminded of my ex-wife in ages.
infidel4life on September 17, 2007 at 6:34 PM
Quick, somebody get Geraldo on the phone!
The Ugly American on September 17, 2007 at 6:35 PM
LMAO!!!
The Ugly American on September 17, 2007 at 6:36 PM
Hey as long as these “enlightened” celebs keep drinking their own waste water there will be more Fiji and Aquafina for the rest of us!
saltydogg14 on September 17, 2007 at 6:37 PM
This gives new meaning to golden showers. Nope….wait, same meaning.
Iblis on September 17, 2007 at 6:37 PM
Plugged straight into their plumbing for hot and cold running golden showers?
laelaps on September 17, 2007 at 6:37 PM
Yikes, Iblis, you beat me to it!
laelaps on September 17, 2007 at 6:38 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
The Ugly American on September 17, 2007 at 6:39 PM
You mean kinda like NASA is planning to do?
Christoph on September 17, 2007 at 6:41 PM
Not so fast, guys. From the linked article:
This is a grey-water treatment option. Grey water is the stuff that comes from your dishwasher, bathtub, and washing machine. George Bush has a system on his ranch that treats grey water for use in irrigation. Since Cate’s proposed system is described as being fit for human consumption, the system is probably something involving solar evaporation and condensation (solar still) with pump filtration. It’s not as far-out crazy as it sounds if you’re Australian (a pretty arid continent).
I remain concerned that she counts Al Gore as a hero. I really like Cate Blanchett — I would hate to have to move her into the ever-growing moonbat column with such luminaries as Cameron Diaz and Charlize Theron.
Anton on September 17, 2007 at 6:41 PM
I should have followed see-dubs link before posting. Correction: grey water doesn’t include the stuff from your dishwasher.
Anton on September 17, 2007 at 6:43 PM
This is sort of related. I am always amazed at how perception and reality get mixed up. We all know about Bush’s Ranch being so much more eco-friendly than Gore’s mansion, yet the perception is that Gore cares more.
The same is true of how Republicans walk the walk and raise their children to walk the walk of their beliefs. Take the Bush’s daughters and the Clinton’s daughter, for example.
Rightwingsparkle on September 17, 2007 at 6:45 PM
Um, about her drinking piss, the water she will drinking will be purer than tap water.
thuja on September 17, 2007 at 6:45 PM
Yesterday and today seem to be toilet days.
Yep. And it’s pretty risky, but she doesn’t know it because her zeal is bigger than her brain.
Entelechy on September 17, 2007 at 6:47 PM
Um, doesn’t the retard know the the “little people’s” sewage goes into public waste treatment facilities? After that, it goes back into lakes and rivers for a few days. What’s more, the average public treatment plants spends several MILLION dollars a year in monitoring. Does the Elf Queen put the same care and technology into her glorified Aquasana?
In other words: EVERYONE recycles water. It’s just that the rest of us don’t drink amateurishly-recycled piss straight out of the tap.
Ecological awareness has nothing whatsoever to do with this. The only way drinking your own waste makes sense is if you have some Howard Hughes type paranoia about public facilities — or an even weirder fetish.
logis on September 17, 2007 at 6:52 PM
So that’s what Self-Delusion taste like…
Don’t ya think when some one starts to drink one’s own pee that its time to rethink your philosophy?
Irenaeus on September 17, 2007 at 6:57 PM
Can’t she just buy some urine offsets?
Thomas the Wraith on September 17, 2007 at 6:58 PM
Can I get the money back I paid for my entrance ticket? :)
William Teach on September 17, 2007 at 7:01 PM
Cate Blanchett to fight global warming by drinking her own pee
I will drink Widmers. She can recycle it for me. Win-win.
MB4 on September 17, 2007 at 7:01 PM
What about the energy need to make the filtration system work?
slp on September 17, 2007 at 7:03 PM
Maybe she’s just into golden showers. Here, pissing in the backyard, we call that blessing the soil. With 2/3rds of the earth being water, that’s mostly is a toilet for the fishes which they have to swim in because they have no choice, you’d think she would make better lifestyle choices. Waterlooney
Kini on September 17, 2007 at 7:03 PM
They just may be thrifty to an unhinged degree. If you were invited to Cate’s for dinner, wouldn’t you BYOB?
laelaps on September 17, 2007 at 7:04 PM
Um, no. The article doesn’t say anything about “greywater;” it says “wastewater.” That includes urine and feces.
logis on September 17, 2007 at 7:05 PM
Note to self: Never drink the lemonade at Cate Blanchett’s house.
ReubenJCogburn on September 17, 2007 at 7:05 PM
lol, I love LOTR, but my god she’s another one of those loonies. Such a shame she’s a good actress too.
j0 on September 17, 2007 at 7:11 PM
is this a simple case of a celebrity so desperate to prove her liberal virtue that she’s willing to drink piss to do so?
Some people pay extra for that.
TABoLK on September 17, 2007 at 7:12 PM
Sounds like she’s training for WaterWorld. I don’t care what the science behind it is…You can’t pour pee into a Mr. Coffee and have it come out “Taster’s Choice”.
Lone Star on September 17, 2007 at 7:14 PM
Cate Blanchet (in a restaurant): I ordered PEE, not TEA!!!
Lone Star on September 17, 2007 at 7:17 PM
She is going to need some solid food also for fiber so why don’t we all send a box ……… Oh, never mind!
OBX Pete on September 17, 2007 at 7:18 PM
Heh! Teapee
Kini on September 17, 2007 at 7:18 PM
Imagine what the family photo album will look like.
“This is us peeing in our water supply…Oh, and here’s our next-door neighbors puking after dinner.”
They’re kids should have some great material for show-and-tell at school, though.
Lone Star on September 17, 2007 at 7:19 PM
So yellow is the new green?
TexasRainmaker on September 17, 2007 at 7:26 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Theworldisnotenough on September 17, 2007 at 7:26 PM
Gives a whole new meaning to her new movie “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”. Hollywood and their publicity stunts!
Lone Star on September 17, 2007 at 7:32 PM
Hey Cate! You water has a real wang about it.
Kini on September 17, 2007 at 7:36 PM
can i still say “Piss Off”
Mojack420 on September 17, 2007 at 7:39 PM
Bottom’s up!
Dork B. on September 17, 2007 at 7:41 PM
Imagine what she could use for hair gel.
hadsil on September 17, 2007 at 7:41 PM
That’s it! We have a winner! Ding Ding Ding!
Close the thread, no further comments necessary.
infidel4life on September 17, 2007 at 7:44 PM
I smell a story for Red Eye… or maybe it’s just ammonia.
RightWinged on September 17, 2007 at 7:47 PM
Who does she think she is, Kevin Costner in Waterworld?
Ryan Gandy on September 17, 2007 at 7:56 PM
Why do the looney celebrities get all the press coverage? You don’t have to be whacko to be interesting.
Resolute on September 17, 2007 at 7:59 PM
Gives new meaning to this little diddy, “Milk, milk, lemonade…”. :)
kiakjones on September 17, 2007 at 8:03 PM
Yeah, that’s kind of what I think the magazine (note, she never said she drank recycled pee) referring to.
But of course, I understand all the angst, considering how Blanchett is constantly badgering people about reducing their carbon footprint and her holier than thou attitude. She needs to get off her high horse and…
Oh, wait, she didn’t.
So you guys are bashing her why? Maybe it’s becuase W is such an influential publication. No? Hmmmm…
SouthernDem on September 17, 2007 at 8:04 PM
I know some Cate Blanchett fans who’d pay good money for it.
Niko on September 17, 2007 at 8:05 PM
I am waiting for someone to suggest that cannibalism will help fight global warming.
JellyToast on September 17, 2007 at 8:09 PM
Only in the minds of great Hollywood thinkers like Blanchett would one think of renewing a renewable resource.
pocomoco on September 17, 2007 at 8:15 PM
I’m going to purchase urine offsets.
aengus on September 17, 2007 at 8:18 PM
Because we’re juvenile, and can’t resist the opportunity to make cheap pee jokes? :D
ReubenJCogburn on September 17, 2007 at 8:20 PM
Aw. man, Allah already wrote that. My humble apologies.
Dork B. on September 17, 2007 at 8:21 PM
LOL, perfect response. Fair enough!
Just try to remember, not everybody is Sean Penn.
And Allah, why are you reading W?
SouthernDem on September 17, 2007 at 8:31 PM
hahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahaahaha cry
peacenprosperity on September 17, 2007 at 8:31 PM
Nothing but yellow journalism on this site!
peacenprosperity on September 17, 2007 at 8:32 PM
LMAO – Holly molly, somebody get this h-yawl guy a blog!
saus on September 17, 2007 at 8:39 PM
I hope to God this turns into a celebrity fad like Evian.
Dork B. on September 17, 2007 at 8:43 PM
While I don’t find it absurd to be able to drink your own wastewater, the cost of constructing, not a personal filtration system — that’s an egregious misapplication of the term — but a wastewater treatment system, plus the operation of it, is a fantastic waste of resources and thus pollution of our environment way over and above having the municipality do it.
What an egotistical ass she is. Go downtown and put some new storm windows on some poor family’s home or upgrade their furnace, you jerks.
Dusty on September 17, 2007 at 8:45 PM
although, screech did not claim be fighting global warming, we have ourselves a Hollyweird Trifecta of the most excremental kind:
1) Screech’s “Dirty Sanchez”
2) Sheryl “One Square” Crowe
3) Cate Blanchett coloring Galadriel’s Pool Golden.
the things we learn, but wish we hadn’t…
zb42 on September 17, 2007 at 8:47 PM
I’m sorry, that was just a disgusting headline.
I guess since celebrities have already started using toilet humor as their ONLY device, they no longer have an aversion to eating their own shit.
BKennedy on September 17, 2007 at 9:00 PM
Imagine that, a conservative telling someone how to spend their own money.
Seriously, where’s the stats on the toll of a system like that? I’d like to see it. I’d also like to see where you got the information on the type of system referred to in the magazine. Because they didn’t specify what exactly it was, just wastewater reclamation.
Lord, the minute someone starts talking about this kind of stuff, even in passing in an article that had nothing to do with it whatsoever, and some of you come completely unhinged.
Where does it even say she drinks her own pee, much less advocating other people doing it? Anyone?
SouthernDem on September 17, 2007 at 9:14 PM
Now, if instead of drinking pee, we combine Shillary’s mandatory exercise plan with lottery drawings to see who we cook on the barby (hey, good muscle tone makes good eatin’!), we could stop global warming!
William Teach on September 17, 2007 at 9:16 PM
Leave Kate Blanchett alone!!!
She’s human!
JetBoy on September 17, 2007 at 9:18 PM
LOL, I’m filming now for YouTube.
SouthernDem on September 17, 2007 at 9:22 PM
Apparently she learned how to do this on the “Titanic”.
Mcguyver on September 17, 2007 at 9:55 PM
Did you have to make that look like beer AP?
frreal on September 17, 2007 at 10:05 PM
It’s funny how most of the people in this thread immediately attack Dems for being so “unhinged” when they go after the President. But when a celebrity is featured doing something like this, you all sound a lot like them.
RMSpuhler on September 17, 2007 at 10:40 PM
bone appetite.
Griz on September 17, 2007 at 10:41 PM
Could be worse. Her name could be Spuhler.
km on September 18, 2007 at 12:08 AM
That’s it. I’m never making out with that woman again!
Also, to engage in watersports will forever be known as ‘to blanchett’
- The Cat
P.S.
A little different circumstance doncha think? Doncha? Doncha?
MirCat on September 18, 2007 at 12:57 AM
What do you expect from someone who can’t even spell their own name?
Merovign on September 18, 2007 at 1:01 AM
No, “most of the people in this thread” were making jokes because we enjoy doing that. You’ve just apparently been buying ahead on your Sense Of Humor offsets, or you didn’t have one to begin with. Lighten up, Francis.
ReubenJCogburn on September 18, 2007 at 1:36 AM
[SouthernDem on September 17, 2007 at 9:14 PM]
Imagine that, a Dem assuming my political affiliation is conservative and, therefore, I’m hypocritical. No surprise there! It seems those two words are inseparable for Dems.
The ones you are looking for are libertarians, Southern Dem. It is rather in form, actually, for a conservative to suggest to someone, even a Greenie who was “Green before it was hip” and has heroes like Al Gore, that she might dispose of her income in a fashion which provides a much higher environmental return on her money than her pie in the sky, profligate spending to make herself feel good.
Now the crux of your comment. It’s not called stats. It’s called a cost analysis. They are different. If I did lots of cost analyses, then I could do some statistics. The one I did was called a ballpark analysis, “seat of the pants” style. My old school prof’s taught me and I paid $50k for their wisdom. I’ll give you all the detailed analysis you want once your check clears.
But seriously, I don’t need a system identified. I know the processes involved, the requirements for operation and what’s available in the way of package plants for wastewater treatment, not wastewater reclamation. (If you need some idea of what’s involved, google “package wastewater treatment” and maybe “process flow chart”.) And even the term wastewater treatment is not entirely proper in describing what Cate’s suggesting because that treatment only brings the effluent to a quality for discharge into the environment, not to a quality for use as potable water.
For potable water, the effluent needs filtration, purification, chlorination and storage. How that system would be permitted for connection to the home’s domestic water system without fear of cross-connection contamination to the public water supply is something for the municipality but I doubt they would be happy with mere backflow prevention as a safeguard and likely not allow it. It’s probably that this would also be the case if she had a private well.
My ballpark estimate for waterwater to potable water, std celebrity home, all said and done, sans separate housing, extra solar panels, yearly operation, chemicals, and maintenance — $50k minimum, $100K tops.
BTW, if the article has nothing whatsoever to do with Cate treating her own wastewater, how come it has her saying she is planning to treat her own wasterwater so she can drink it?
Dusty on September 18, 2007 at 2:14 AM
Actually, it’s pretty similar: both systems are designed for people who don’t live on planet earth.
logis on September 18, 2007 at 2:32 AM
Actually, it’s pretty similar: both systems are designed for people who don’t live on planet earth.
logis on September 18, 2007 at 2:32 AM
There is also a difference. One group will very likely return to planet earth, the other not so likely.
MB4 on September 18, 2007 at 3:41 AM
I’d like to think that I’m not some nutjob. I would think Cate is not near the nut many of you think. I live in a home that has its water supplied by a rain water catchment system, and its waste water(grey water)is cycled from the home to both and exterior garden and indoor garden/greenhouse systems (simple when using biodegradable soaps and detergents). I don’t have a black water system so yI don’t deal with that hassle or cost. I do use a composting toilet (yes i make my own fertilizer, but then someone else does that for you at a much higher cost). I produce my own electricity via solar and wind systems. I heat in the winter with a recycled wood pellet/furnace heating system, no air conditioning for the 100-115F summer days but with some prior planning, my home stays fairing cool due to proper placement, shade and a wind powered fan. Produce much of my own food (veg, poultry, goat). I do all this because I live 40 miles off phone, water and electric systems. I love my views of the night skys lite by billions of stars, and constant satelite fly overs. I love the lifestyle. Its a little slow at times and there is always something to do.
Some of these things I do not because I have to, but I find it interesting, and enjoyable (don’t any of you have projects or hobbies you find enjoyment in). I don’t think my lifestyle is either superior or inferior to any of yours. I do think it suits me just fine.
If a Hollywood star lives on a ranch, raises horses and likes to occasionly ride on a tractor and cut their on hay, are they a nutjob. How about clearing brush, or chopping firewood (couple of presidents come to mind). I think not, but install a grey water system and bingo, welcome to loneyville.
Cate may live in a similar area under similar conditions, maybe not. I don’t really know, and you may not either. I’m not telling you how to live, and from reading her comments (and do we ever know if they are correctly quoted?) I didn’t see where she was telling you how to live either. Most of the world lives without the conveniences and toys that many of us/you have (hey, even I’ve got a satelite internet connection and cell phone).
Where do you draw the line between being more efficient or energy conscience (or maybe just an interest you may not share) and being a nutbag. Are the use of compact flourescent bulbs, geo-thermal heating and cooling systems, low e-glass windows, or buying a fuel efficient vehicle things just for crazies. I’d think not.
scooter on September 18, 2007 at 8:14 AM
Oh, I forgot to mention. For the most part leaf blowers do suck!
scooter on September 18, 2007 at 8:24 AM
First off, I didn’t mean to imply you’re a hypocrite, so sorry about that. I’m never snarky, if you read my posts.
Second, the main point I’m making is similar to scooter’s, above. Yes, please, rail against Silky and the Goracle, as they preach and preach then fly around in private jets and use enough energy for a small country to power their homes.
But when someone actually puts their money into making their home as energy independent as possible it’s no reason to deride them. Like I said, I still haven’t found her saying she’s drinking her own pee, nor recommending anyone else do it.
By the way, I did look up some of these reclamation systems, and for the life of me I can’t see where one of these has a negative effect on the rest of the municipality.
SouthernDem on September 18, 2007 at 8:59 AM
Does Harrison Ford know this?!
Do they have any kissing scenes in the next Indiana Jones flick?!
Malpaso on September 18, 2007 at 9:24 AM
Nice snark.
Anton beat me to it, but this is not a sewage recycling system, at least I don’t think it is. That’s very difficult to do.
But neither here nor there, the reports of this millionaire diva home shopping in Sydney belie her delicate environmental sensibilities. There were no homes big enough with the “right view”.
For the umpteenth time, here’s my Green Challenge for her, Leo and Algore: burn as little and waste as little as me in a year and I’ll volunteer for your Global Warming Hysteria groups for the rest of my life. You are incapable of living the life you want us to live.
Jaibones on September 18, 2007 at 10:09 AM
I suppose that she is still waiting for her stillsuit, as well.
Henry Bowman on September 18, 2007 at 10:36 AM
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