Re: Every day roughly 1.9 million trees are cut down to make traditional toilet paper

On 11/27/22 5:23 AM, David Hartung wrote:
> On 11/26/22 20:52, Gator Golf wrote:
>> Every day roughly 1.9 million trees — enough to cover about 45 Sydney
>> Opera Houses — are cut down to make traditional toilet paper out of 
>> virgin
>> wood pulp, according to a new report which looked into how consumer
>> choices can impact the environment.
>>
>> More than 60 per cent of people recently surveyed across Australia, the
>> United Kingdom and United States were unaware of how their choice in
>> toilet paper contributes to global deforestation, the Toilet Paper
>> Environmental Sustainability Report found.
>>
>> It's estimated a person goes through 127 rolls a year, adding up to 42
>> million tonnes worldwide. And that's leading to the loss of 700 million
>> trees annually, the data found.
>>
>> <https://www.9news.com.au/world/earth-day-2022-toilet-paper-found-to-
>> contribute-to-mass-deforestation-data-reveals/a6b0763b-54a6-4f66-8a21-
>> 8b3fbad064b2>
> 
> 
> https://twosidesna.org/US/Paper-and-Sustainable-Forests-some-great-facts-to-note/ 
> 
> [...]
> 3. U.S. made paper comes mostly from private working forests that 
> support 2.4 million jobs and $99 billion in payroll.
> 
> A second NAFO report on “The Economic Impact of Privately-Owned Forests 
> in the United States” reports that public and private timberlands are 
> responsible for employing 2.8 million people, who received payroll in 
> the amount of $102 billion.  Private timberland makes up 73% of the 
> timberland base in 32 states, but it is responsible for more than 85% of 
> the economic contribution.
> [...]
> 
> Tell me again about how paper causes deforestation.

They plant and replant those trees in huge forests of corporation owned 
and replanted woodlands... it keeps the land from being cut down and 
turned into GOLF COURSES and TRACT HOMES And smaller land owners also 
plant trees for paper to get a tax break on the use of the land since 
planting those trees for paper gets you a lower property tax than just 
simply leaving the land empty and/or barren which would mean you pay a 
higher land tax to hold empty land.

The toilet paper "tax break" is a GREEN and SUSTAINABLE way to use the 
land to decrease CO2 and increase clean Oxygen at the same time.  And 
with 8 Billion people, getting rid of CO2 is only half the equation, we 
really need to turn it all into Oxygen by having trees that make toilet 
paper and through PHOTOSYNTHESIS exchanges that CO2 in the atmosphere 
into Oxygen in the atmosphere, so more CO2 is likely imperative for the 
process to expand with HUMAN population expansion, we need more CO2 so 
we can grow more trees and plants and produce more oxygen to keep more 
humans and other Biological Life alive without suffering brain damage 
from low oxygen levels.

Stopping CO2 is the wrong imperative, the real need is to convert the 
CO2 into plant/tree growth to get the respiration of the Oxygen we need.

CO2 scrubbing/sequestering doesn't create more oxygen.

Grow more plants, don't wipe your ass and blow your nose less...


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