CompuServe Messages

Tim, There's a key word that seems to be missing from your messages…that word is "reasonable". IF user documentation where something you read once and then threw away…fine…put it on newsprint. But I suspect that 99.9% of the folks who get user documentation keep it around long enough that if it were on newsprint…it'd be ripped and yellowed long before the user quit needing it, even if only on an occasion. You worry about paper…that's peanuts compared to things that are really clogging landfills. In particular, grass clippings (yes…they biodegrade quite nicely…and give off lots of methane–a greenhouse gas–in the process) take up a large proportion of landfill space in the summer. I was astonished when I read the percentage. I forget the number…but it was large…on the order of 60% or so. I believe in the environment, but I also believe in being reasonable. I suppose I could go live in the mountains, never buy anything, grow my own food and so forth…be as ecological as possible…but that's not reasonable, at least to me it's not. I'm not a "knee-jerk" environmentalist (and I am NOT saying you are), I look at the issues, the source of the information and what axe they have to grind. Global warming has not been proven…if anything…it's been disproved. The so called ecological disaster of the century…the burning of the oil in Kuwait and the dumping into the Gulf…did NOT have near as much effect on the environment as so called experts said would occur. Again and again…so called experts on the environment have been proven wrong. Their predictions don't come true. That doesn't mean it's ok to do "bad" things…it just means that all the issues must be looked at before jumping into the fray. Don