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John F. Haugh II writes:

> Paper-based news distribution is extremely beneficial to the environment.
> The new trees which must be planted have a significantly higher CO2 uptake
> than the older trees which were harvested to make paper.  This results in
> a reduced amount of atmospheric CO2 and less global warming.

Your second line there has the kicker:  "The new trees which must be
planted" implies that these new trees are planted without fail, and
that the trees are all that are at stake.  Unfortunately, new trees
are not always planted, and land is often left denuded.  Even when new
trees are planted, those species that depended on there being large
trees are left up a creek.  The local ecology is largely blown away
when thousands upon thousands of acres of timber are clearcut to make
paper, regardless of CO2 uptake of the new trees.

Not that I'm getting into an ecological battle.  This was about Steve
Jackson games, and yeah, it can come out of austin.important, I think.

Tom Benedict
benedict@chaos.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin