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Originally Posted by Phogg
That is the intent.
It pokes fun at the green agenda, since many of those who embrace such have been realy loathe to adopt electronic books over paper, and decried the manufacture of evil electronic devices early on. To counter them, nerds and geeks from across the political spectrum began using the dead tree term everytime one would normally say "paper."
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Ahh I see. But couldnt the greenies just counter and say that the environment is being hurt just as much by plastics and metal deivces clogging up the landfills? All the materials are recycleable of course so their argument wouldnt hold much water. Except that they now are supporting the death of trees by still reading paper books of course.
Gotta love the irony of it all.
Edit: Here are a list of articles that debate the issue.
http://www.ecolibris.net/ebooks.asp
Seems either one can be greener for a user based on reading habits.