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Originally Posted by elcreative
Nice planting the trees but don't worry too much... green arguments relating to paper are totally misleading, trees for paper are planted specifically for paper and replaced when harvested...
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I would like to think that is the case, but articles such as
this one do not fill me with much confidence about so-called sustainability of tree harvesting. This report specifically relates to wood, wood pulp and paper used in the UK. Here is the associated documentary
video.
Has anyone analysed the environmental impact of producing e-books and readers, versus p-books? I imagine that making a comprehensive comparison would be quite complex.
For example, trees take up carbon dioxide, so arguably p-books are "green", as they act carbon stores - unless someone burns them, or until they end up in a landfill site and are broken down by bacteria - and wood is considered a renewable energy source, p-books are more durable, when printed on high quality paper, but that has high environmental impact, also production and disposal of electronic devices involves some challenging environmental issues, perhaps the amounts of electrical energy consumed editing e-books and p-books is similar, readers require small amounts of electrical energy to run them, and so on.