What's the most upsetting thing about the human impact on nature?

What's the most upsetting thing about the human impact on nature?

It’s so sad that they removed the feature. I loved helping people correct their answers so they were that much better. They should have just restricted it to certain users, not removed the feature entirely. 

That’s pretty sad, you should indeed have that right. In my country there are official stickers you can put on your mailbox, one of the following combinations: YES - YES, YES - NO, NO - YES, NO - NO. The first one is for unaddressed advertisement and the second one for addressed advertisement. You can choose any combination you want so you can determine yourself which types of advertisement, if any, you still want to receive. The sticker is legally binding so they can get a fine if they ignore it. They still do ignore it sometimes, though very very rarely. It’s been months since I’ve last had someone put advertisement in and usually the ones that still do are local businesses, which I understand and tolerate, certainly in these times. Come to think of it, they should add another YES/NO to it for only local businesses with the same zip code, I would support that and put a YES on my mailbox for that type of advertisement. I don’t like junk mail as much as the next guy, but it’s not exactly like trees are not a renewable resource. Another option to trees would be Hemp. It grows very fast with multiple crops per year and the yield per acre would be exponentially more than that of trees, leaving the trees for things like building material.

Then you will have better peace of mind when you get that junk mail. :)

About 90% of the mail I get, goes directly into the garbage can.

I can’t get them to stop sending the mail. I’ve tried with many of them. It kills me because I know it kills trees to make that junk mail.

The number is worse than I could have guessed. 100 million trees are chopped down annually just to produce mail that you throw directly into the trash.

Over in Europe we have mailbox stickers stating “no door to door mail, only addressed mail.” also variations like “no salesmen, jehova’s or charity collections “. a) A laminated notice at my gate iterating no solicitors, flyers or free newspapers got them to stop completely (I filled a 30gallon box every week from flyers and free newspapers until the sign went up)

b) There are YouTube videos that show how to recreate pulp by adding water to flyers then using a mixer to break it down. Then the pulp is placed in a cylindrical mold with a press to form homemade burn logs that can be used in fireplaces and wood stoves for heat.

And it works!

Perhaps it's a nice niche biz adventure in the US. Design and print stickers and sell them for 1$ each. Just plant a few trees in return ok, thanks!

We need some sort of rule or registration that prevents any junk mail from coming to us. It would be nice if regulators did something but I’ll go ahead and assume lobbyists would stop that from happening. You should not be thinking of the trees. By this point paper comes almost 100% from tree farms that would have been developed for other uses if there was not a demand for their paper.

Instead, think about the impact of all the oil that goes into the plastic films & inks & such to make the junk mail so shiny. That has a much larger carbon footprint than the paper alone.

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