The trees cannot speak for themselves, so we will speak for the trees.
We call on the New York Times to end their wasteful ways and to #StopThePresses 🛑
Let’s change the news, not the planet.
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I read somewhere that the New York Times consumes as much paper as Sweden. For the children, we need to #StopThePresses NOW.
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They use a technique of comparing energy use to countries. So I figured we could try this. Now, this is just an example, but I think the strategy is what's important. Iceland has 1906 km2 of forest. Basically it's all one type of forest, so we can pretty accurately determine how many trees they have. According to ourworldindataDOTorg, there's 6511 trees per km2. So there is 12,409,906 in Iceland.
So that means every year they use almost 5 times the amount of trees (because 12.4 million into 59 million) of the entire Country of Iceland!
And before you say Iceland doesn't have any Trees (because they will!) I tried to find a geographic landmark for 1906 km2 of forest.
It's about the size of half of long Island, which is pretty big as it has the entirely of Brooklyn, Queens and Nassau County (and part of Suffolk). Brooklyn, Queens and Nassau is home to 6.238 Million People.
Anyway, thats just an example. Probably there would be a better one, but comparing things to countries is a good move, imo.