Wasted paper, frustration, the destruction of our forests.

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Mr Downtown wrote:
As for forest destruction, if we use less paper, the tree farmers will just plant fewer trees next year. The U.S. has vastly more forest now than a century ago.

Nope. We've basically kept it stable throughout the 20th century. Not more forest. Just not much less.





But the scrub pine and maple that's planted neither replaces the missing hardwoods nor the ecosystem that was destroyed in harvesting that wood.

In fact, it's been postulated that the pines are actually contributing greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere and the maples in the Northeast are killing oak saplings.

So, let's hope the "farmers" don't keep mindlessly planting the cheapest trees they can get to replace the forests they're destroying.