Two Sides Challenges the Veracity of Google’s ‘Go Paperless in 2013’ Campaign

• A New York Times recent article revealed the extraordinary impact electronic communication is having on the environment.

In the United States, more trees are grown than are harvested and the volume of trees growing on U.S. forestland has increased 49 percent over the last 50 years. The amount of U.S. forestland has remained essentially the same for the last 100 years at about 750 million acres, even though the U.S. population tripled during the same period. Forest cover in Europe is now 30 percent larger than in 1950 and has been increasing by 1.5 million soccer fields every year.