Thread: How many trees?
View Single Post
Old 01-16-2012, 05:05 PM   #22
mr ploppy
Feral Underclass
mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
mr ploppy's Avatar
 
Posts: 3,622
Karma: 26821535
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Yorkshire, tha noz
Device: 2nd hand paperback
Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
But what about the CO2 cost of the production and transport of the book? The tree that's used to make the paper may be "carbon neutral", but the rest of the process isn't.
Ebook readers get transported a lot further than the average paperback does, they go from Hong Kong to America, then on to whichever country they are sold in. It's only then that they would be transported as far as a paperback would. There would also be all those computer servers that need to be on waiting for someone to download an ebook.
mr ploppy is offline   Reply With Quote