[Steven Lyle Jordan]

This article and "report" leaves out so many details... such as the equivalent displacement of paper-based documents for each device, and the environmental cost of producing that amount of paper, in tree-felling (mostly in non-sustainable forests, no matter what the paper industry tells you), drag-shipping (and ground damage), the huge amounts of electricity, water and chemicals used to produce the paper, final product shipping (and more energy), printing costs (and more electricity), more shipping (and more energy)... those elements alone make it clear that an electronic gadget such as a PC or PDA (or e-book reader) is much more efficient than the equivalent paper products.

If they want to single out individual products like Plasma TVs, which are incredibly energy wasteful compared to other TV technology, and IMO probably ought to be banned for that reason alone, that's fine. But condemning all electronic devices because of their sheer number is so simplistic and obviously self-serving (The International Energy Agency put out that report, not an environmental agency), it's laughable.