| json_metadata | "{"app":"musing/1.1","appTags":["question"],"appCategory":"question","appTitle":"Do you agree that textbooks should be totally replaced with tablets?","appBody":"<p>This is a double edged knife question and I am going to answer this from an environmentalist's point of view. Textbooks are made from papers which in turn are made from woods harvested in the forest. Hence, textbooks contributes greatly to deforestation, a process of removing forest layers (forests are made largely of trees) and conversion of such land to other non-forest use. </p>\n<p>For every tree removed for the purpose of making paper, the multiplier effect on the environment is significant. First, the tree might be serving as a habitat for several other biological organisms which are important to the food chain and the overall functioning of the ecosystem and as a result of its removal, these biological organisms are lost. Second, an average tree fixes tons of carbon-dioxide annually. The carbondioxide is one of the greenhouse gases that contributes greatly to global warming and its accompanying climate change. Millions of tons of this gas is released into the atmosphere as result of human activities mainly and the trees help us to remove some of them by fixing them up during photosynthesis. Hence, the more the textbooks we make, the more the demand for paper, the more the trees that are removed from the forest, the lesser the carbondioxide that is fixed and the more warming and climate change the planet would experience.</p>\n<p>Similarly, tablets are made from a variety of materials, including non-degradable plastics. Plastics are also a major pollutant in our environment as of today, especially in our water bodies including the various seas and oceans. Plastic pollution in oceans have a lot of detrimental effect on the biodiversity and other important ecosystem processes. </p>\n<p>Hence, both tablet and textbooks in some ways contributes to the destruction of our planet. However, tablets seems to be the better of the two evils. Recently, there have been clamours to replace non-biodegradable plastics with bio-degradable ones and scientists are making frantic efforts to phase out the former. If this becomes achievable and tablets becomes 100% environment friendly, I will like to see textbooks totally replaced by tablets.</p>\n<p>Hope you enjoyed the long read</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"pkrmxmrsq","appParentAuthor":"thomas90","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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