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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
It's equally difficult to argue that modern society can be maintained on sustainable resources. If youre suggesting that going back to the stone age (with the consequent reduction in population) is more environmentally friendly, sure it is. So what.
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Sorry, but this is boiling down to the "thats modern and cool, and thats uncool" trait. Who knows when we are actually going forward or backward? What is forward? The argument "If you don't support this new technology, we could as well be in stone age", is a hyperbole, without any real contribution on the current matters of a tech.
eBooks are a a cool thing. But paper is also a great technology. Paper is made out of 100% renewable materials. Paper is more sustainable to aging than any electonic data material. Paper is cheap in production. Paper can be recycled to 100% with zero waste.. Paper does not require the user to have additional infrastructure to read it. I wouldn't carry paper to the grave all too fast. And to say just because something is *newer* than paper does not make it "better" by default. Like any possible would just take us futher away from stone age and thus more advanced ..
Society WILL have to change to sustainable ressources at some point. And no this does NOT take us back to stoneage, if we manage to make the right decissions at the right time. Currently it just doesn't look like it, humanity as whole has enough foresight...