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Originally Posted by Phogg
While we are saving trees, let's save corn and wheat. They are just as endangered, you know.
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I debated even answering such an obviously trollish response, but I think the point is, which I am sure you got, that there is a alternative to using so much wood just for reading purposes, namely the very objects of discussion on this forum.
There are plenty that would argue that the extinction of the overly hybridized and arguably unhealthy corn that we see now, would perhaps, be a good thing, but forgetting that argument there is not a ready alternative to eating for humans rights now, like there is for reading paper books. Also the growth of corn being sub 1 year does really compare to somtimes multi-decade growth needed for some timber
I am not advocating also as the only direct benefit of using ereaders, being the reduction of our timber consumption, but rather a nice side benefit.
We can be flippant about it, but we continue to consume without regard for the future or our children becuase it is convenient for us. Whether it is wood, oil, food or a myriad of other things its really the same story, and I am proposing that we need to start somewhere.
I will try to do my small part and I will fall far short of what I can really do but its a start