JW's have NO right to criticize the destruction of forests

by stillstuckcruz 17 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  stillstuckcruz

  g90 3/22 pg 8: Deforestation is much the same. Humans enjoy the forests, depend on them, in fact. But they keep killing off the equivalent of the players: the individual species of plants and animals, whose complex interplay is what keeps the forest alive. This is more than a game, though. Deforestation affects you. It touches the quality of your life, even if you have never seen a rain forest.

  g05 3/8 28-29: In just 13 years, 125 million acres [50 million ha] of forest in Latin America has been destroyed, an area equivalent to all of Central America, says a report published by the United Nations Environment Programme. Brazil saw 57 million acres [23 million ha] damaged, while Mexico lost 16 million acres [6.3 million ha] of forest and had 990,000 acres [400,000 ha] of cultivable soil degraded. Haiti, El Salvador, and the island of St. Lucia lost between 46 and 49 percent of their forests in the same period. These statistics are “horrifying,” says ¿Cómo Ves? a scientific magazine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and “they are even more so when we think about . . . the hundreds of thousands of plants and animals that have disappeared from our increasingly arid planet.”

  And then......

  w05 12/1 pg 8: Here machines produce hardcover books and deluxe Bibles at a rate of up to 50,000 copies per day. Book signatures are collated, bound, and trimmed. Covers are then attached. Cartons are slipped over stacks of finished books. The cartons are automatically sealed, labeled, and stacked on a pallet. Additionally, a paperback-book line assembles and packs as many as 100,000 books per day. This too is a world of machinery—countless motors, conveyors, gears, wheels, and belts—all moving at astounding speed to produce Bible literature.

  ......Not to mention the trash build up in landfills from people throwing their literature away.

  So much literature is made in production of the "good news", I can't even imagine how man forests have been destroyed on it's account. But of course, it's their LIFE-SAVING work so that makes it all ok. Everything else the world prints on paper is worthless drivel so that's NOT ok. . Not to mention the trash they produce in landfills when people(witnesses included) throw away their literature daily. I just purged my wardrobe and threw away all these old magazines. When through many trash bags to do so. Thoughts?
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  leavingwt

  The trees used to produce paper are exactly like the potatoes planted to produce french fries. Eating french fries will not destroy the world's potatoes. Printing will not destroy the world's trees. The trees are planted for the purpose of being harvested to produce paper. There are more trees today than there were in 1920.

  Deforestation is a different issue.

  http://www.tappi.org/paperu/all_about_paper/faq.htm
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  Found Sheep

  plus how much money has the FDS given to HELP with the earth? oh none that's right why give to something that won't directly help the FDS?
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  pirata

  *** w09 7/1 p. 15 A Visit to a Remarkable Printery ***

  In Wallkill, every month some 1,400 rolls of paper arrive at the printery, which uses some 80 to 100 tons of paper a day.

  http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_trees_are_sacrificed_to_gain_one_ton_of_paper According to non-profit group Conservatree, it takes an average of 24 trees to make a ton (2,000 pounds) of typical office paper. It takes about 12 trees to make a ton (2,000 pounds) of thinner magazine or phone book paper. Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_trees_are_sacrificed_to_gain_one_ton_of_paper#ixzz1JJZGK3mk Assuming that magazine paper is halfway beetween the quality of magazines and office paper (thus 18 trees per ton), and an average of 90 tons per day we get: 365 * 90 * 18 = 591,300. A guesstimate of half a million trees consumed per year for Watchtower's North American printing operations.
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  blondie

  It is pretty much the same with toilet paper and other similar paper products. The trees used are specifically planted for that purpose only. No trees used for lumber are used to make toilet paper or printing paper.
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  stillstuckcruz

  @LeavingWT: Interesting link. Very informative. Ok so I suppose the subject deserves a different title. But still undeniably, The WTBS consumes a whole hell of a lot of paper/paper-producing trees.
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  NomadSoul

  Yeah, mainly deforestation is done to make room for agriculture or for living space. Which is not at alarming rates like the enviromentalist make it out to be.

  Besides, we gotta live a little, push mother nature to the edge to see what happens. Who cares about the next generation, we'll be dead! LOL
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  leavingwt

  stillstuckcruz:

  @LeavingWT: Interesting link. Very informative. Ok so I suppose the subject deserves a different title. But still undeniably, The WTBS consumes a whole hell of a lot of paper/paper-producing trees.

  Yes. This is what American politicians refer to as "stimulating the economy" and creating jobs.

  Disclosure: I worked in the Brooklyn factory for more than four years. At peak production, we used 100 rolls per day. Each roll costs $1,000.
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  miseryloveselders

  Disclosure: I worked in the Brooklyn factory for more than four years. At peak production, we used 100 rolls per day. Each roll costs $1,000.

  whoa......... 100 x $1,000= 100,000 $100, 000 x 365= $36,500,000 You're kidding right?
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  leavingwt

  whoa......... 100 x $1,000= 100,000 $100, 000 x 365= $36,500,000 You're kidding right?

  At PEAK production, in the mid 90's, Brooklyn would use 100 rolls per day. This was when every large press was running. This level of production was not unheard of, but it was also not very common.

  Watchtower is a non-prophet organization, but they are not a non-profit organization. These are merely the operating costs of running an international printing corporation, evolving to survive. As such, they no longer use any large presses in Brooklyn. It's done elsewhere, more cheaply. (The paper probably costs more than $1,000 per roll, by now.)