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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
Do you have evidence for this? To provide evidence, you may have to actually quantify those 'negative externalities of environmental degradation' to which you refer; in other words, put a $ on it. As others have eluded in this thread, there may well be an overall positive externality.
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Here is an article on the topic...the evidence in this case is carbon footprint, which you may or may not believe is valid. But carbon footprint can be a proxy for energy use in general. Thus an ereader is more efficient, energy-wise, after forgoing about 22.5 new books...thus after the first year of usage., approximately.
They should also apply the 20% tax on paper newspapers...which is actually worse than the book sector.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/...er-than-books/
http://tstcpublishing.wordpress.com/...-green-debate/
cleantech study:
http://www.tkearth.com/downloads/thoughts_ereaders.pdf