Posted on 08/06/2019 4:44:04 PM PDT by Libloather
I repeat: 500,000 trees. Killed. (That’s all U.S. Sunday newspapers combined.) What a bummer.
**SNIP**
What I found was bad news…
>> 500,000 trees must be cut down just to produce each week’s Sunday newspaper (all U.S. Sunday papers combined).
>> In total, newsprint consumption in the U.S. (2009) meant a loss of 95 million trees, generation of 126 billion gallons of waste water and emission of 73 billion pounds of greenhouse gases. Ouch!
>> Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.
>> If all newspaper was recycled—including the daily papers—we’d save about 250 million trees each year.
>> About 65 percent of U.S. newsprint is sourced from ecologically important forests in the U.S. and Canada, including the Canadian Boreal Forest—a global treasure, the last frontier of northern forest wilderness. Very bad.
(Excerpt) Read more at elephantjournal.com ...
Biomass energy is inadvertently making the climate crisis worse.
In the lowland forests of the American southeast, loblolly pines and cypress trees are grabbing carbon dioxide from the air right now. Using power from the sun, they release the oxygen and bind the carbon, building trunks, barks, and leaves.
But much of that carbon won’t stay there. As it turns out, millions of tons of wood from these forests each year are being shipped across the Atlantic, and burned in power plants in countries like the UK and the Netherlands, in the name of slowing climate change.
There is a video on you tube
Yes and trees are a crop grown for many purposes. I live in a working forest. Areas are harvested at different times.
Heck, they'll probably print a special edition!
The paper companies re-plant trees for the sole purpose of cutting them down for pulp.
If there were no Sunday newspapers, those trees may have not existed in the first place because the paper companies would not have planted them years ago for harvest at a later date.
(I live in Maine, a state with fewer paper mills than it once had.
-—By 2014, biomass accounted for 40 percent of the EU’s renewable energy, by far the largest source. By 2020, it’s projected to make up 60 percent, and the US plans to follow suit.-—
I didn’t see the video you mentioned (not yet anyway) but did read the article. It’s troubling to me that we ‘plan to follow suit’.
I thought we flipped the finger to the Paris Accord, no?
I don’t see how burning so many trees results in less pollution than oil or natural gas. Both are hydrocarbons aren’t they?
I am not a back woodsman so I don’t know.
gosh, now i can feel all “virtuous” and everything: i haven’t bought a newspaper or magazine in decades ...
Yup.
It is called tree FARMING.
No different than corn farming except the growing cycle is in years instead of months.
Sounds like a great new title for a book:
How to Recyle Fake Newspapers like the Failing New York Times into Bird Cage Linings and Other Useful Things
3 units of redwood; 15 yr reentry=5 yrs/cut.
In Santa Cruz, Ha!
:)
Do you know how many dinosaurs had to die for your plastic grocery bag?
Trees: America’s free standing renewable resource. Cut ‘em down, others, lots of others, grow right back where their predecessors were cut. It irks me to see our natural resources so immensely under utilized. Global warming: bah!
Come on.. a half million per week? The United States actually has ‘more’ trees now than ever before. You believe the 500,000 figure? You don’t think we’d see ‘holes’ in our forest at that rate? No, I don’t have a figure in mind and please understand I am not attacking you. I just question that logically.
Well, actually the trees are cut down and sliced into lumber for construction. The sawdust and wood left over from the process are turned into paper.
So the lumber companies aren’t wasting any material/resources.
Much of the newsprint IS recycled paper, anyway.
Um.
Don’t we print a zillion less newspapers now than 2o years ago?
Don’t we use about 1/1zillion of the paper we used to in society?
Why bitch about the very small amount of tree supplied paper we still use?
Also, the LA Times at that point for the Sunday edition was a whopping 6.5 pounds, much more than the current average of just over 14 ounces.
Isn’t there a video on youtube about hippies crying over dead trees?
I believe I’ve seen that. They lived amoungst them. Maybe the NY Times could cover it.
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