LESS PAPER
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Many of my concerns about paper are environmental. When I see reports about what’s happening in other industries I apply those concerns to paper. I’m worried about the “fast food” sameness of cheap copy paper worldwide (thanks to reading Eric Shlosser’s Fast Food Nation.)
And my philosophy behind having a custom book-binding business is that I only make books that are needed, there’s no waste, no inventory that doesn’t sell.
And I’m very worried that paper is doubly destructive: destroying plants and trees to get the raw materials, and using massive amounts of water to extract the cellulose and wash recycled paper.
I read reports like this one in the New York Times today, about climate change, and I think that there must be someone, or many someones, applying these thoughts to the manufacture of paper, and I hope that this site is a magnet that draws them to me so that I can profit from their wisdom.
World Scientists Near Consensus on Warming
A report will describe a growing body of evidence that warming is likely to cause a profound transformation of the planet.
Many experts involved in the intergovernmental panel’s process said there was hope that with a prompt start on slowing emissions, the chances of seeing much greater warmth and widespread disruption of ecosystems and societies could be reduced.Outside experts agreed.“We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering,” said John Holdren, the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an energy and climate expert at Harvard. “We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required and the less suffering there will be.”
