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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Very true, not to mention the environmental cost: According to Michael Pastore's 50 Benefits of Ebooks, a run of the Sunday New York Times pulps about 75,000 trees... that's for one paper, one week, and not including daily editions. One year = almost 4 million trees. We simply can't keep that up.
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Oh and don't forget corn.
We simply can't keep eating so much corn it is unsustainable.
Trees for paper are an agricultural crop too. Though actually many of them are more like big tangled bush looking things than lumber type trees.