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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Point One: Not all paper comes from tree "farms." Worldwide, entire virgin forests are being clearcut, and many of them left that way, for paper production. (The cleared land is very popular with cattle ranchers, raising more beef for your dinner table and fast-food franchises.)
Point Two: You can chop down a tree in five minutes. Growing one to completely replace it, and to recover the loss to environment and animal habitats, takes decades.
Point Three: The amount of chemicals, bleaches, oils, energy and clean water used by the average pulp mill is staggering, and those wastes are dumped back into the environment when used up; so the paper-making process is very ecologically damaging.
Point Four: The only reason tropical hardwoods are not used for paper production is that tree harvesters make a higher profit when used as furniture. They are being chopped down all the same.
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Point One: Name one... and be consistent, it's either clearcut for paper production by replanting or used for cattle, they don't raise cattle in forests...
Point two: So... if you don't need the paper then you don't need the tree to be replanted anyway...
Point three: And so is the crap fro recycling paper but because it's "recycling" that's OK...
Point four: True as far as it goes but ignores basic point... hardwoods are not only difficult to make into paper, they make lousy paper... it's no coincidence that finer quality papers are made with fabrics - linen based and rag based.
Point five: I added one... you still ignore the fact that reducing paper reduces reasons for planting trees for pulp and is more likely to lead to the land being used for other (non-tree) purposes...
