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Originally Posted by elcreative
Yes... you're right about your question definition... the forests used for paper are plantation forests, planted and used for trees for paper... don't need the paper, no reason for those trees... This isn't some kind of ancient forest being destroyed, these are planted and maintained to produce paper... I'm sure there is a fortune waiting for you if you can come up with an instant substitute for paper and make everybody use it... we 're still waiting for the paperless office to become a reality...
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I think you missed what I was trying to say. At the very least, we could use those specially-planted forests more slowly, or, alternatively, we could stop using those trees for paper and just let them grow, if everyone got on board.
There are also numerous sources for non-wood paper (e.g., hemp, cotton).
The paperless office already exists in principle. There's no reason people
need paper for office tasks. I worked for 7 years at a company where I routinely generated reports as Word documents that were 500 pages long, if you printed them. Any imbecile should know better than to print such a report, yet we
still had people who insisted on printing them, even though they had perfectly good laptops, and could annotate the reports to their hearts' content. It's not a technology issue. Basically, it's a Luddite issue. It just takes a while for the old generation to die off, to put it bluntly.