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Buying paper pretty much is devoting a percentage of revenue towards planting trees.

• pistoriusp 16y ago
  I don't follow the logic?
  • ableal 16y ago
    Paper-making companies own, and care for, a lot of trees.
  • zsouthboy 16y ago
    The manufacture of paper does not involve cutting down virgin forests nowadays - trees are specifically planted to be used as paper. No one is "killing a tree" when they print anything - if they didn't print it, we'd plant less trees to make paper with.
    • pistoriusp 16y ago
      There's more involved than just trees here. The environment doesn't just involve plants? It takes energy to produce trees, cut them down, make paper, transport paper, print magazines, distribute magazines, throw away magazines and then (hopefully) recycle it. This isn't a solved problem. Far from it. Why not just distribute it digitally. I think printing yesterday's news on a piece of dead tree, transporting it and then selling it is a stupid idea...
      • ableal 16y ago
        That's another kettle of fish, and you're right on most counts, except I'd lose the "it's stupid" attitude - people 'waste' resources in satisfying their tastes in many ways. We can keep haggling about the price till the cows come home. Actually, coming back to the trees for paper-making, you can add to the downsides that usually the trees are fast-growing (e.g. eucalyptus), not 'nobler' woods (even humble pines are too slow). And the mills do smell a bit - in a particular highway route, I can tell when I'm driving past one mill I can't see. On the other hand, the process does capture carbon from CO2 ... P.S. A good argument can be made that 'wasting resources' is the basis of human civilization, without which we'd be living in caves and frugally feeding on berries. Check out what happened because of luxuries like silk and condiments like pepper ...