We have accomplished the mission of cultural inheritance. Let us continue to be freely breathing trees, please

Once, a man traveled to the suburbs alone. He put food, a book and other necessities in his backpack. At noon, he found a stump on the edge of the forest. He sat on it and had his own lunch. Then, he was drinking coffee, while reading.

Suddenly, he heard two voices asking and answering questions.
"Long time no see, you've changed a lot!"
"Yes. Long time no see. "
"You're very white now, and you're painted with beautiful patterns! Alas, look at me. These rings will never change again. "
"Yes! I've become so different. I still miss when we were together, and the blue sky, the white clouds, the Sun, or even those days when it was raining. We were a whole, stretching to the sky. Our annual rings were expanding year by year. I miss those days so much. "

The man looked intently. It turned out that the stump he was sitting on and the book in his hand were talking. He realized that the paper used for the book in his hand was made from the cut down tree.

How many trees traditional paper books use

It is estimated that the United States needs about 30 million trees to provide raw materials for printing books a year. For the world, this number will be multiplied many times. Fortunately, however, in recent years, people have paid more and more attention to forest protection and environmental protection, the utilization rate of recycled paper has been greatly increased, and the demand for felling trees has been curbed.
For paper that needs log materials to be made, the wood of man-made plantation forest is mainly used. In this field, some international certification mechanisms have been established. If the use of original trees does not meet the certification standards, the relevant products will not be certified, and people will resist this product in the market. This curbs the use of natural wood for manufacturing.

However, considering that the place where trees are planted can also be used as a natural forest farm, or in some places the original forest has been cut down for planting fast-growing trees, if the planting forest is reduced, the area for natural trees can be increased, which is very useful for environmental protection. From this point of view, reducing paper use is still an important thing in protecting natural trees.

How many trees have been saved after electronization

It is said that cutting down a tree can only print dozens of books, and an electronic device can store thousands of books, which is equivalent to saving thousands of trees. If more people use electronic means to read books, of course, more trees can be saved.
But the progress of electronization is not so ideal. Because electronic reading devices, such as tablet computers and e-book readers, are still very different from traditional paper books in terms of use experience, and are often more expensive than paper books in terms of short-term cost investment. Therefore, not many people change the traditional reading mode into the electronic reading mode. In schools and other traditional application scenarios, paper books are still the mainstream. Therefore, at present, electronization has played a certain role in saving paper use, but its effect is still very limited.

Options for transition period

Because electronization has not made great progress in changing people's traditional reading habits, coupled with the needs of education and other traditional fields, paper books will exist for a longer time in human history. This is a basic fact.
Therefore, human beings need to find a balance between knowledge inheritance and environmental protection. Of course, the process of electronization should continue to be accelerated. In the production of traditional books, more environmentally friendly methods should also be used. In addition to the use of recycled paper mentioned above, attention should also be paid to the circulation of second-hand books, better publishing planning, and the advertisements of saving paper ideas.

Imagination of the future

There are many human sustenance in books. The most important thing is to help human knowledge inheritance activities as a carrier of knowledge. With the further development of science and technology, the interaction between electronic devices and humans is closer. Perhaps in the future, human beings can use human-computer interaction technology to pour knowledge into the human brain in a more direct way. In that case, the traditional way of reading will no longer bear the role of knowledge inheritance, and there may be only a sense of nostalgia or leisure.
When that time comes, I'm afraid the word reading is meaningless, isn't it? Anyway, it's good news for trees.

Let us continue to be freely breathing trees, please

Seeing that the man found them, the book and tree stump felt very embarrassed.
The man felt very guilty. Although he let the two separated parts meet again, he realized that although he was not a tree cutter but a book reader, he was the one who took part in the felling. This makes him feel a little unbearable for his intention to protect the environment.

He stammered, "I'm sorry. What can I do for you? "
The book said, "Put me on the stump and let me continue to be a tree, may you?"
The man put the book back on the stump. Slowly, the book grew trunk, branches and leaves.
What a big tree!

Suddenly it rained. The man woke up from his dream. He was still sitting on a tree stump. He drank half his coffee and read half his book.