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 ...
It’s a great video, and good for a laugh.
Slow down and maybe eliminate Gorebull Warming by cancelling all of your news paper/magazine subscriptions.
Also, never buy a copy of Gorebull warming from a news stand.
Just say no to any paper fake news!
Zackly right.
I’ve called on paper mills and have observed various levels of replanted pulpwood trees as I drive toward the mill.
If anything, the US and Canada will soon be way long on newsprint paper...
Those trees have families. Dreams. Lives. The horror.
“Like any other crop.”
Corporations which harvest trees operate just as you suggest. Typically, those corporations harvest a white pine and replace it with multiple shoots, so they can in turn be harvested in the future. Regardless of Lynn’s lament, there is no shortage of trees in the U.S. or Canada, there are more now than there ever have been. Corporations have futures too, you know.
Trees killed? Should we charge the lumber companies for Xylocide (Murder of Trees)? Maybe the NYTimes should be printed on clay tablets!!
“I repeat: 500,000 trees.”
Yeah, right. “500,000” Boy, that sure sounds scary.
3.14 * 62 * (60 * 12) = 81,430.
One tree makes 81,000 pieces of paper.
81000×500, 000 = 41 billion pieces of paper. I don’t think a Sunday NYT needs forty one billion pages.
The author is crazy and probably bad at math, too.
What do I call killing 500,000 trees a week?
...A good start!
There’s still an NEWs outfit...sending paper to people?
Those trees, and everything else on the planet, only had 11.59 years left until the end anyway.
Are those true facts or pulp fiction?
Do you know how many pleathers are slaughtered to make a single Michelle Obama boob belt?
> ...the Canadian Boreal Forest—a global treasure, the last frontier of northern forest wilderness.
The East Siberian taiga, all 1,500,000 sq miles of it doesn’t count ?
I think of trees as solar energy.
May be true in some cases, but not all. I recently retired from a paper mill and the whole log is used in most mills. As many have said, more trees now than ever...
Ha ha ha! Love it.
Used to work for a big paper company. I’ve seen the “crop”. If you are ever in an airplane over land near a paper mill, you can see it too. Lots of nice straight rows of pine trees. Or just pay attention while driving in the country. Trees don’t grow in straight lines...
Trees used to make paper are planted like corn - meant to be harvested. Stop publishing your paper and all you do is potentially help someone lose a job.
Hybrid pines that mature in 20 years, all planted as seedlings by the company. Divide your land into 21 sections, leave one fallow, and you have 20 sections, each with trees in yearly harvest rotation. Harvest the 20 YOs, plant seedlings in the fallow section. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Recycling is cool. The paper companies do it, too. But have you ever seen a box stapled together instead of glued at the corner? That means the fibers that made that paper have been recycled so many times, they are too short to hold when glued. Oh - it takes more good water to recycle than it does to produce virgin paper. And the paper mill cleans and purifies any water it discharges.
Paper’s cheap. Enjoy the good stuff.
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