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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Ebooks need to be stored on web servers that run 24 hours a day, and need to be read on devices that use electricity and are made using toxic chemicals that (usually) end up in the rivers. Trees used for paper production tend to be replaced with new trees, and produce oxygen while they are growing.
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Yes... adult trees hundreds of feet tall are replaced with
4 foot saplings, that will not produce the equivalent amount of oxygen, soil erosion control or animal habitat as a full-grown tree for decades.
And if you think the toxic chemicals used to make electronics are bad, check out the toxic chemicals, bleaches and oils that are used to make paper, the incredible amounts of electricity needed to run pulping plants and printers, and the amount of oil needed to drive all that dead pulp around, and run the power plants that provide light and AC for their warehouses and stores.
And as one electronic device can hold hundreds to thousands of books, take the amount of power and chemicals used to make one electronic device, and multiply it by 100 or 1000... to get the equivalent power and chemicals used to make an equivalent number of printed books.
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