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Trees used for commercial purposes are all replanted.
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I know a place in Brazil you should see.
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And new trees are better are cleaning up CO2 than old trees.
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Large trees, which tend to be
old, sequester more carbon and clean more air than small
new trees.
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And we have plenty of trees anyway.
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If cutting down fewer trees makes you feel better as a person, fine, but don't fool yourself into thinking that ebooks are environmentally advantageous.
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When you can explain to me how the manufacturing of one reader that can hold 15,000 books is not better than 15,000 books' worth of trees to be felled, pulped, manufactured with harsh and environmentally-damaging chemicals and an incredible amount of fresh water that becomes waste afterward, stored, shipped and delivered to your door by vehicle, I'll stop fooling myself...