In a world, in which movies and animation abound, in which ever increasing storage space is mounted onto disks, and in which it is increasingly difficult to be on your own, left in quiet, the habit of reading is still a most pleasurable pastime.
What is there to read? I find that I would not miss the massive paper-oriented newspapers of an inch in thickness. Such use of paper has a real cost in lost forest space that could be devoted to growing hard woods that could lock up CO2 for centuries. If your nearest forest is not a canopy then it probably could be if forest science were dedicated to a natural greening of our habitat. Replacing slow growing deciduous forest with short fast growing evergreens is not the best solution.
It would be better for each farm to have massively high oaks and cedars alongside rivers and streams flowing through them. Providing a barrier to destructive runoffs and slowing the departure of rains into lakes giving nature's filtration systems a chance, large hardwood tree forests interlaced with tall cedars and redwoods seem idyllic.
That growing hard woods helps in sorting out our environment and in creating venues for living that surpass the congestion of cities should not be a surprise. In a world of over production, it seems strange that we cram more and more people into unpleasant concrete avenues. Returning to dirt roads would even seem stranger, but a strangeness of a different quality.
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