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What a waste of trees.

• mtreis86 6y ago
  I don't understand this, can't we just grow more trees? Reading emails is a huge waste of time and I don't see how we can produce much more of that, let alone produce more Donald Knuths.
  • throw0101a 6y ago
    > I don't understand this, can't we just grow more trees? Sure. But you also have to transport people to the forests where they grow, operate machines to cut them down and trim them, transport them to pulp mills, use a lot of water to generate the pulp (often add bleach to whiten it), and then distribute the final product. There's also the create of printers and ink/toner. And once DK has spent 30-60s reading the printout, it gets tossed into (hopefully) the blue pin where more energy is spent trying to recycle it. And a lot of the energy used is generated from fossil fuels.
    • notmyname9173 6y ago
      And the paper that's sent to landfills breaks down into global warming-worsening gases.
• tinus_hn 6y ago
  Let’s ban wrapping paper