Paper Tiger
The separation of man from beast is man's ability to create masses of paper.
I'm a fiscal person, not an engineer. But, my new position has put me in contact with paper. Not from the user end, as in stuffing it in the copier and filing it in cabinets. But trying to figure out "good" paper from "evil" paper. It seems a former governor decided at the last minute (literally) to ban "evil" paper from state government. Evil paper is also called "virgin" paper. Good paper, or former-virgin paper, is called recycled paper. The odd concept is, even though it takes virgin paper to create former-virgin paper, banning virgin paper is a good thing. Maybe the governor depended on enough people to ignore his ban to keep the paper flow going, and look good at the same time, although banning evil paper didn't get him the DC cabinet position he was striving for.
If good paper comes from good recycling companies, then evil paper comes from evil companies, those who cut 5,000 year old virgin timber and strip our land of all life in order to polute our world with the recidual of making the evil paper. Only statistics don't exactly back this up. For example, we have more trees now than we did 100 years ago. Less grasslands, less wetlands, but more trees.
The grasslands and wetlands killers aren't evil paper companies, but developers. But the evil paper makers are nonetheless blamed for the loss of habitat, even when they keep habitat growing, by of all things, planting trees.
I live on one of those developments made from grasslands and wetlands, called a golf course. We have very nice grass and ponds, and Canadian geese. Stupid geese, can't they read? With the only place left to land, they think the golf course is their habitat. So what if it is exactly where they used to land 100 years ago? Don't they know the evil paper companies destroyed it?
Have you ever watched a flock of Canadian geese fly into the evening sky in their perfectly formed Vs? Or land together on a pond, skiing in sync with each other? Or get into honking wars with other geese? Much better than watching golfers duff and cuss, duff and cuss, one group after another.
The golf course people try to scare the geese away with fire crackers and dynamite. It doesn't exactly work because there is no where to scare them to. Better than the Deer Haven condo owners up the street who want to kill the deer.
I've gressed. Back to paper.
My quest, if it can be called that, is to find out the truth about paper. Can we eliminate the evil paper companies who cut and replenish our trees and replace them with 100% recycled paper companies, who don't? Can recycled paper make recycled paper forever, with nothing new added? Or are the evil paper companies going to have to stay in business, despite our best efforts, to keep us in the life style of paper we are accustomed to?
I'm a fiscal person, not an engineer. But, my new position has put me in contact with paper. Not from the user end, as in stuffing it in the copier and filing it in cabinets. But trying to figure out "good" paper from "evil" paper. It seems a former governor decided at the last minute (literally) to ban "evil" paper from state government. Evil paper is also called "virgin" paper. Good paper, or former-virgin paper, is called recycled paper. The odd concept is, even though it takes virgin paper to create former-virgin paper, banning virgin paper is a good thing. Maybe the governor depended on enough people to ignore his ban to keep the paper flow going, and look good at the same time, although banning evil paper didn't get him the DC cabinet position he was striving for.
If good paper comes from good recycling companies, then evil paper comes from evil companies, those who cut 5,000 year old virgin timber and strip our land of all life in order to polute our world with the recidual of making the evil paper. Only statistics don't exactly back this up. For example, we have more trees now than we did 100 years ago. Less grasslands, less wetlands, but more trees.
The grasslands and wetlands killers aren't evil paper companies, but developers. But the evil paper makers are nonetheless blamed for the loss of habitat, even when they keep habitat growing, by of all things, planting trees.
I live on one of those developments made from grasslands and wetlands, called a golf course. We have very nice grass and ponds, and Canadian geese. Stupid geese, can't they read? With the only place left to land, they think the golf course is their habitat. So what if it is exactly where they used to land 100 years ago? Don't they know the evil paper companies destroyed it?
Have you ever watched a flock of Canadian geese fly into the evening sky in their perfectly formed Vs? Or land together on a pond, skiing in sync with each other? Or get into honking wars with other geese? Much better than watching golfers duff and cuss, duff and cuss, one group after another.
The golf course people try to scare the geese away with fire crackers and dynamite. It doesn't exactly work because there is no where to scare them to. Better than the Deer Haven condo owners up the street who want to kill the deer.
I've gressed. Back to paper.
My quest, if it can be called that, is to find out the truth about paper. Can we eliminate the evil paper companies who cut and replenish our trees and replace them with 100% recycled paper companies, who don't? Can recycled paper make recycled paper forever, with nothing new added? Or are the evil paper companies going to have to stay in business, despite our best efforts, to keep us in the life style of paper we are accustomed to?
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