Once you have an ereader and leaving aside the internet, ebook transport and production environmental costs drop to near-zero. There ebooks are the clear winner.
However, that leaves the environmental cost of researching (next year's model), producing, delivering, and disposing/recycling ebook readers (with a limited life span, I think for most consumers 4 years is optimistic - something between 2 and 4 years maybe?) versus the environmental cost of producing/transporting paper and books.
I don't know.
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Originally Posted by Gianfranco
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Gianfranco, thanks for that pdf link. Am I crazy or does page 6 appear to show a net gain of forest on a global level?