Re:The Printed Word in Peril
by justtopost on Thursday September 27, 2018 @10:35AM
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Paper production replants trees. Its not saviving any forrests. I would argue the enviromental toll from kindles and cellphones is magnatudes worse.
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Any of those has non trivial impacts.
Your claim is valid, but we should take into account that cutting trees and planting new ones is not the same a leaving the trees alone in term of ecosystem. Just like burning down an old town an rebuilding a new one is not neutral in term of things lost.
Re:The Printed Word in Peril
by emodendroket on Thursday September 27, 2018 @11:12AM
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You'd have to consider how long somebody uses a Kindle and how many books they would have bought to really start to make this comparison, I'd think.