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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
Not that i really want to get into a environmental debate but... chopping down trees and using them for pulp or building supplies is actually good for the environment IF they are farmed trees.
If you accept that carbon dioxide emission by humans is the driving cause of "global warming" or "climate change" AND if you believe that warming/change is BAD then growing trees, chopping them down and turning them into product that will be kept for many many years and replanting new trees to continue this cycle is a great way to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and sequester it.
Also, while they are growing, those farmed trees provide homes and natural migration corridors for wildlife
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But the environmental impact of paper books is not limited to farmed trees. IIUC, the chemicals and bleaching involved in the paper making process alone are not good for the environment.
Then there's the fact that those farmed trees probably aren't being planted and cut down by
hand. One presumes that fossil fuels feature heavily in the "seed-to-book" process.
AND the shipping. Etc.
But it seems you already realize that and you were calling me out for poor phrasing on my choice, which is valid in my book. I apologize for going the quick-and-snippy-but-somewhat-inaccurate-in-the-details route.
