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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Or they could just grow hemp.
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I actually agree with this. Hemp-based paper is sturdier (the original Gutenberg bible was printed on it), there's less environmental cost to growing and processing it than for wood and cotton, and you can use vertical space by growing it in high-rise closets or whatever, leaving arable farmland free for food crops.
Incidentally, I personally think that books and basic forms of soap* shouldn't be taxed unless you want to end up with an illiterate and unhygienic population.
* Both of these are taxed in Canada, and there's some talk of also applying the same tax to even more categories of groceries, so perhaps we can add "half-starved" to the list.