Brian Palmer (aka Slate’s Green Lantern) writes that “iPads and Kindles are better for the environment than books.”
If the Lantern has taught you anything, it’s that most consumer products make their biggest scar on the Earth during manufacture and transport, before they ever get into your greedy little hands.
He then papers glosses over an important part of the manufacture of electronics. Mining. So I commented:
Paper versus plastic
“E-readers also have books beat on toxic chemicals.” I’m not so sure of this. As noted, “E-readers do, however, require the mining of nonrenewable minerals…”
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