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Paper Manufacturer Launches "Print More" Campaign

Posted by kdawson on from the try-origami dept.

innocent_white_lamb writes "Domtar, a major North American paper manufacturer, has launched an advertising campaign to encourage people to print more documents on paper. Domtar CEO John Williams opposes campaigns by other companies asking employees to be responsible with what they print. 'Young people really are not printers. When was the last time your children demanded a printer?' Mr. Williams said ... 'We've got to do some work about having them believe and feel that printing isn't a sort of environmental negative.' The industry expects that, absent this campaign, paper demand will decrease by 4% annually. Williams's comments did not go down well in some environmental circles."

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  1. Re:Environmental? by mister_playboy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ideally of course, the carbon would be locked into oil and other fossil fuels deep inside the earth where it can't harm anyone.

    You do know that carbon-containing molecules are the basis of all life on earth, right?

    I tire of the unscientific hyperbole that seems to be increasingly associated with environmentalism.

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  2. Re:Dead Forests... by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0, Troll

    The forestry industry has this odd idea that "managed" means planting one species, equally spaced for easy harvesting, and often not even a species native to the region.

    That is exactly what a managed forest is. In the immortal words of Inigo Montoya, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

    "Managed" is a relative term, and open to damn near any interpretation you wish.

    No, it is a precisely defined term. Why am I not surprised to see muddle-headed post-modern nonsense posted by a Seattle environmentalist? Diversity is a racial term, and here it is in an environmental context. Environmentalists aren't happy unless humans are miserable. Who else would actually complain about the lack of stinging pests?

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  3. Re:Dead Forests... by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0, Troll
    Who's talking about not feeding critters we like? I'm talking about taking a nice hike and not being stung painfully. What's a normal person's reaction to that? "Oh, that was nice!" What's a nutcase's reaction? "FOREST NO GOOD!"

    I just went through about eleven pages of search results for bees and didn't find anything about hating bees, except a few references on how to protect yourself from killer bees. You sure you're not projecting your own hatred onto others?

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  4. Re:Paper and Environment by dfenstrate · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...Palinism

    So, now that Bush-hating is becoming inexcusably passe, there's a new target for the 'progressives' daily two-minute hate.

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