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Originally Posted by nekokami
... I think we should be cautious in trying to claim an environmental advantage for ebooks, particularly as they are used today.
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Personally, I tend to give most claims about the environmental impact of this or that a good looking over. Not because I don't care about the environment, nor because I don't realize that there are things we do that impact it negatively, I do and I do -- I was in Scouts far too long to not care or notice.
The reasons for my caution are that there is a certain segment of the environmentalist lobby that will claim any crazy thing, regardless of where the facts lie (please note that I'm
not classifying any particular claim). There has been a persistent (I hate to use the phrase, but it's the one that fits) hysterical paranoia in parts of the environmentalist movement for long enough that I don't just take claims on the subject at face value.
The frustrating thing is that I actually see their point: a lot of folks just won't care or notice, let alone
do anything, until there is some sort crisis of biblical proportions looming over them, so they've evidently decided to convince those folks that such a crisis is indeed looming, and to that end, embrace any wacked out claim, even those that are patently false to anyone who looks straight at them.
The trouble with that approach, aside from the wrongness of embracing 'big lie' tactics, is that even the lazy and apathetic can tell when they're being lied to in a spectacular fashion, and it damages the credibility of those that are presenting reasonable, demonstrably accurate evidence, and it allows folks to disregard the whole topic is just some sort of wacko hoax, perpetrated for reasons that are impenetrable to 'normal' folks.
