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Yeah right, tilling arable lands and pulping more trees isn't a problem at all. Whatever happened to critical thinking.

by marvindanig 7y ago

cptskippy 7y ago
> tilling arable lands and pulping more trees So you're arguing against using crop land to produce a crop?
- detaro 7y ago
  Why wouldn't one argue against unnecessary landuse producing more pollution?
  - cptskippy 7y ago
    I think you'd first need to prove that it's unnecessary.
- marvindanig 7y ago
  Moving the goalpost much? Clever but not constructive at all. Producing crop for food supplies is not the same thing as producing crop for transmission of blob of text. The former is critical for human survival whereas the latter is totally undesirable. Especially now that we have a well permeated web to distribute books on, we don't need anyone to sow or reap the trees anymore. Period.
  - cptskippy 7y ago
    How is that moving the goal post? > Producing crop for food supplies is not the same thing as producing crop for transmission of blob of text. The former is critical for human survival whereas the latter is totally undesirable. Do we need to produce more food? No, we have an over supply and producing more would only drive down prices and harm the producers who are already struggling and require subsidies. Proposing we produce more food crop farms is asinine at best. > Especially now that we have a well permeated web to distribute books on, we don't need anyone to sow or reap the trees anymore. Period. Suggesting that web delivery is a suitable or even complete replacement for books or printed literature is equally asinine. Conveyance of discrete data is only one small aspect of printed media. The experience of reading a book, magazine, pamphlet, or paper is entirely different from reading on an electronic device. Dissemination is also another critical difference, sure everyone can download your PDF but that doesn't mean they will. A magazine sitting on a coffee table in a waiting room is an entirely different experience from anything electronic and it is complete incomparable.

Yeah right, tilling arable lands and pulping more trees isn't a problem at all. Whatever happened to critical thinking.

cptskippy 7y ago

> tilling arable lands and pulping more trees So you're arguing against using crop land to produce a crop?

detaro 7y ago
Why wouldn't one argue against unnecessary landuse producing more pollution?
- cptskippy 7y ago
  I think you'd first need to prove that it's unnecessary.
marvindanig 7y ago
Moving the goalpost much? Clever but not constructive at all. Producing crop for food supplies is not the same thing as producing crop for transmission of blob of text. The former is critical for human survival whereas the latter is totally undesirable. Especially now that we have a well permeated web to distribute books on, we don't need anyone to sow or reap the trees anymore. Period.
- cptskippy 7y ago
  How is that moving the goal post? > Producing crop for food supplies is not the same thing as producing crop for transmission of blob of text. The former is critical for human survival whereas the latter is totally undesirable. Do we need to produce more food? No, we have an over supply and producing more would only drive down prices and harm the producers who are already struggling and require subsidies. Proposing we produce more food crop farms is asinine at best. > Especially now that we have a well permeated web to distribute books on, we don't need anyone to sow or reap the trees anymore. Period. Suggesting that web delivery is a suitable or even complete replacement for books or printed literature is equally asinine. Conveyance of discrete data is only one small aspect of printed media. The experience of reading a book, magazine, pamphlet, or paper is entirely different from reading on an electronic device. Dissemination is also another critical difference, sure everyone can download your PDF but that doesn't mean they will. A magazine sitting on a coffee table in a waiting room is an entirely different experience from anything electronic and it is complete incomparable.