Go Paperless

[Gary_C]

I got an e-mail from a credit card company requesting that I get paperless statements by e-mail. If I did accept their offer they would even plant a tree for me. The offer also came with the following statement:

Trees play a major role in keeping our environment healthy. To put things in perspective, over a 50-year lifetime, one tree will generate $31,250 worth of oxygen, recycle $37,500 worth of water, and control $31,250 worth of soil erosion.

I just had no idea they could put these kind of numbers on one tree. Is this true or is it environmental BS?

I do not plan to accept their offer as part of the money I get to pay my bill comes from supplying the fiber used for that paper.  ;D

[SwampDonkey]

 ;D You'd probably end up printing it off anyway. The first sheet would jam in the printer, so it would take at least two sheets anyway. I guess one could start the morning fire.  :D :D :D

Some of these banks do number crunch forestry sector numbers. We here reports on the industry from CIBC and TD bank periodically.

I suppose some bean counter has taken a particular trees species and learned, from guestimates, it's outputs from physiological functions and applied the math to it based on the price of bottled water and oxygen. The erosion estimates would be from fairy tales or some obscure study they (or the World Bank) funded in the Amazon that no one else ever read or heard of or reviewed/scrutinized for scientific worthiness.  ;D

Reminds me of something Klee Irwin would try to sell. ;D

[beenthere]

Gary_C
I think we all know the answer to your question... ;D ;D

It is simply amazing what the economists can do with just a few figures...from some completely unrelated extrapolation of a known fact. Just imagine what they could tell about a blade of grass...

Now, try to plant that tree and collect....  (crtreedude could give us some lessons on how to get some up-front money, maybe    )

[metalspinner]

Their only incentive for you to bank online is that it is cheaper for them.  The fine print might enlighten you that a small service fee would be added to your bill for the convenience of online banking as well. :

[Cedarman]

These are the same economists that tell me my wife is worth $250,000 per year for all the house work, babysitting, cooking, escort service, etc that she provides.  Now who is to argue with that? 

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

These are the same economists that tell me my wife is worth $250,000 per year for all the house work, babysitting, cooking, escort service, etc that she provides.  Now who is to argue with that? 

Not me, mine would be cheap at twice that price...

[Sprucegum]

How is that on-line bill gonna work when you take it to the outhouse? 

[pigman]

You print out the bill and take it to the outhouse.

[Furby]

You simply carry your phone or laptop out with you.

[rbhunter]

Question??

How many fewer trees will there be if everyone goes paperless and the landowners turn to other ways to use the land and make a profit?

Randy

[Tom]

In today's world, Tree, landowner and profit aren't allowed in the same  conversation, much less the same sentence.  >:(

Most of the "Do Gooders" don't own land and are more concerned with other people's business than their own.   I would speculate that, without the pulp industry and sawlogs, Urban America would fill the void with  more Disneyland's for entertainment and tract homes for shelter and profit, leaving the existing infrastructure to fall into disrepair.

[Gary_C]

You print out the bill and take it to the outhouse.

That is not really necessary. My mailbox is full almost every day with "great opportunities" from credit card companies. Ya, I suppose I could opt out, but someone has to help keep the paper selling after I supply the fibre.   :D :D

The only problem is the paper is not very soft.  : :