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Re:IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run by hef19898 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:54AM (#26164655)
Transportation has propably the highest negative impact, paper is aheavy bulk product after all. Animal impact, i would say comparativley low. We are talking about decades old economic forests here (there are of course exception which should be prosecuted to the fullest where ever possible). In Europa at least, these activities are not having any more negative impact on wild life. Again, these are not age old natural forestsanymore and haven't been for quite a while.

I am not saying pushing the catalogue to digital is a net negative, no idea how that could even be reliably quantified. Just that paper and print production is by no means as negative to the environment as is believed.

Re:IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run by forgotmypw17 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @05:05AM (#26164726)
are you saying there are no beings who live in those woods and are displace?
Re:IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run by danielbarla on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @05:33AM (#26164886)
I generally agree with your direction. That said, this is incredibly hard to quantify (and also: [1]); because wildlife is not uniformly negatively affected in a clear-cut area. Any "artificial" intervention by humans will favour some animals and harm others. Ignoring the fact that it was probably humans who first cleared out primordial forests, the very act of re-planting a forest probably negatively impacted those species who don't thrive in a forest setting.

I'd say having such forests which are relatively unmolested for several years before being harvested are less negative than clearing them out and placing say farms in their place. So, overall it's not the biggest thing to go after, but then, I'm no expert.

[1] also depends greatly on what type of cutting we're talking about. I would say it's clear that illegal and / or legal but permanent deforestation is a negative. Above, I'm talking about forests which are planted and re-planted to obtain their wood.

Re:IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run by forgotmypw17 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @05:48AM (#26164983)
good points.
Re:IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run by varjag on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @05:36AM (#26164909)
Re:IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run by forgotmypw17 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @06:25AM (#26165207)
looks cozy. i'd live in there. :)
Re:IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run by varjag on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @06:53AM (#26165386)
So guess the animals would too… if you had them food brought in. Not much undergrowth to feed off.
Re:IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run by forgotmypw17 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @07:13AM (#26165507)
Where there's soil undisturbed, there are insects. Where there are insects, there are larger creatures. Of course, undergrowth would help.
Re:IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run by chrisseaton on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:23PM (#26168851)
In a commercial wood farm? Not really, no. That's a big problem with them - they're dead apart from the trees being farmed.
Re:IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run by Ar-Curunir on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:31PM (#26168956)
(Seeing Like A State, etc)
Re:IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run by demosito666 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @08:07AM (#26165866)
I think it's safe to say that there is no wildlife in Europe, so this is more or less correct.
Re:IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run by qayxc on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @09:04AM (#26166355)
> I think it's safe to say that there is no wildlife in Europe, so this is more or less correct.

You don't go out too much, do you? In my municipality we have wolves - at a population density of 214 ppl/km² no less. Since there's no recorded killings of livestock by wolves and they have to eat something, it's save to assume we're OK on boars and deer, too. Not to mention the rabbits, hares, badgers, various songbirds, birds of prey, insects and other critters I encounter on a daily basis when walking the dog. Through the local woods. Which are very much filled with wildlife.

edit: I got the population density wrong - it's actually much lower if the entire area is considered, not just the town :) the correct figure including all land would be ~45 ppl/km².

Re:IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run by forgotmypw17 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @08:30AM (#26166054)
Are you sure about that? This page suggests otherwise:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna_of_Europe