Unfortunately there is no winner take all solution for environmental impacts, it is a many-fronted theater. So better plastics solidified and made useful than

Unfortunately there is no winner take all solution for environmental impacts, it is a many-fronted theater. So better plastics solidified and made useful than released as fumes, but your decisive line of argument omits the carbon sequestration possible with large-scale paper for one thing (just not the kind that spills outflow directly into waterways), and the general degradation of the living oceans.