Junk Mail around the world produces as much CO2 as 9 million cars
Mon, Aug 11, 2008
Post filled in: Environmental Issues, Feature Post
Who here doesn’t spam? No, not the damn meat, I’m talking about spam mail. Yup, there you go.
You go to your inbox every morning to check your mail, hoping to find that letter from your ant in Brussels, but instead you get flood with loads of trash mail. Well, besides the fact that junk mail agravates the hell out of most people, and has, more or less, absolutely no purpose, it seems it’s also very harmful for the environment.
How so? A report by the group ForestEthics estimates that destroying forests to make paper for junk mail releases as much greenhouse gas pollution as 9 million cars or seven U.S. states combined, or as much as heating 13 million homes each winter. Here’s what NASA climate scientist James Hansen, a leading voice in the global warming crisis, had to say about the report:
“20 years after I first testified before Congress on the threats posed by climate change, we have reached a point at which we must remove unnecessary carbon emissions from our lives, or face catastrophic consequences. It is hard to imagine waste more unnecessary than the 100 billion pieces of junk mail Americans receive each year, and these new findings, revealing that the emissions of junk mail are equal to those of over nine million cars, underscore the prudent necessity of a Do Not Mail Registry.”

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August 11th, 2008 at 11:34 am
I signed the petition at donotmail.org
August 23rd, 2008 at 6:45 pm
STOP the insanity.
If I didn’t ask for your mail, QUIT sending the junk to me! It’s a simple concept, but one the direct mail people disagree with. I too signed the petition; just like Do Not Call, we NEED a Do Not Mail list to stop all the junk mail.
December 19th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Great stuff. I was too sure about this story. But this helped a lot so thanks
December 25th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Great blog. Just stumbled here late on Christmas day - but I’ll definitely be back - - Happy new year to all
January 31st, 2009 at 12:07 am
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March 11th, 2009 at 4:10 am
I really liked the way they came off