Stop Global Warming By Saving Trees

As everyone learned in grade school biology, trees take carbon dioxide, which is causing global warming, and turn it into oxygen and biomass through photosynthesis. Taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere is just as important as not putting it in the air in the first place. Call us tree-huggers if you want, but we think it is about time that Americans think seriously about leaving the “Wood Age” and entering the “Electronic Age.” Not only is electronic communication (such as the one you are reading right now) faster, cheaper, better – it also saves the trees which can help save us from global warming. The boating industry gave up wood about 1960, don’t you think it’s about time we stop writing on it?

50% of these logs are going to be used to make paper for U.S. newspapers and magazines. Egyptians invented writing on paper about 2200 B.C.

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