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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
Trees are renewable but when you chop them down you release all of the carbon dixiode that is in them which is not a good thing.
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A fully-grown tree taken out of the forest isn't the equivalent of a sapling planted to replace it. Essentially, that sapling won't be an adult tree equal to what was felled for decades-to-centuries. So the capability of the ecology has been set back decades-to-centuries for every tree felled.
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Originally Posted by leebase
As for electricity...unless one reads in the dark or only during the day, one is going to be using electricity to read a paper book. I love that I can read in the dark and do every night. I'm sure I use less electricity with ebooks than I did with books.
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I'm sure you do, too: Pulp mills use scary amounts of electricity to create all that paper, then printers use heavy-duty electricity to create books. (And most of that electricity is coal-powered.)