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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
I do not believe this. Flatly.
I think electronics do much, much more damage to the environment than paper and the constant churning of devices ( pda's, smartphones, pc's/laptops/netbooks, dedicated reading devices, iPods, ...) in search of the shiniest, newest, brightest puts a burden on the environment of orders of magnitude higher than the renewable resource that are trees and paper. I would contend that at least for books - maybe less for disposable items like newspapers and magazines - paper is the environmentally friendly way.
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You might want to do a bit of research into the amount of pollution, chemical runoff and waste that goes into producing paper... it's
much, much more than most people have any idea of. Also, consider the fact that it is people's wasteful nature with electronic products (one of the single largest product categories where people throw away
perfectly workable devices when they simply get tired of them, and thereby causing unnecessary landfill pollution), not the wasteful nature of the electronics themselves, that are the concern here.
<MORERANT>But as I said before, people don't want to do what they have to do to be efficient, whether it's paper or electronics, so we're likely damned either way. (And I guess that's an opening to say "Well, as long as I'm damned, I'll just be damned with paper...)</MORERANT>