by Rebecca Florido

Created on: October 05, 2009   Last Updated: October 10, 2009

Americans through their own choice and with eyes wide open, have become the highest bidder toward wasting the planets resources such as trees that make the paper in the office hit the top of the charts (literally) with a whopping ninety-five percent! Canada is the leading merchant of paper and the United States is considered their largest consumer of lavishing it.

We as a country need to step up and make sure that what we do will be beneficial to us throughout our future rather than taking advantage of what we have now and restricting what resources will be available in the future.

I don't know about you but my preference does not consist of sitting among flat rocks with a hammer and chisel chopping my way to a sentence. We were educated on the fact that information was at one time received by painting pictures on cave walls along with carving words into a slab of rock.

I use the stone age as an example to help you better understand what George Santayana has said, "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

If history repeats itself then wasting paper will eventually cease all writing capability. Which in return will inevitably put us back further into our pasts with the leading thoughts of trying to conjure up an alternative resource. Why would we want to dissipate something so precious that not only mother nature took time to construct but also the resourceful people of our country!? I don't believe we have the same respect that we once held for our nation.

I learned on the Discovery Channel that at one time our planet was made of sixty percent forest. However, today it has been reduced by thirty percent and it is still gradually decreasing! I'm not a math expert but I do know that reducing means to take something away; even if doing so consists of small percentages it still means less not more.

The earth has to have time to re-grow what we cut down and we are cascading more than we can flourish at any given moment.

Think about when you are at work in the office or conversing amongst someone's committed vocation. Now I would like you to imagine how many printers you would hear in the background making that wonderful sketching sound for documents that did not need to be printed.

I don't think its necessary to consistently illustrate on paper the photos of you and your dog amusing one another with a Frisbee. More than anything I think that a boss who sends out paper memos in a growing technology consortium is a very gifted person with more

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