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Originally Posted by tomder55

Most of the retail outlets I use discount their prices . I would never think of paying the cover price.

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You had said, "Right now the cost of an Amazon download is competitive to new hardcover purchases," which is not true, and I checked Amazon to confirm that conclusion. You had said nothing about buying discounted books, remainders, etc.

All I know is Amazon is responsible for a bunch of 'green' jobs - Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Supply Chain Managers, Truck Drivers, Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks, Sales Representatives, Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers and more.

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Originally Posted by speechlesstx

All I know is Amazon is responsible for a bunch of 'green' jobs - Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Supply Chain Managers, Truck Drivers, Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks, Sales Representatives, Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers and more.

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Can someone enlighten me regarding what is GREEN about cutting down trees to print books and shipping the damn things all over the world

Trees are a renewable resource ,assuming the forests are properly managed .

Big assumption there Tom we have done so well managing the Amazon and indonesian rainforest. If I catch your response correctly the book selling industry is a green industry, is there some sort of smog over there that is clouding your thinking, perhaps it's called GOP? Do you honestly think paper making is a green industry? Here's a primer on green industry, a little different to the BO definitions but
http://logistics.about.com/od/greens...ewgreenind.htm

I can't speak to how the rest of the world manages their forests. The US is a net carbon sink ,and a major reason for that is forest management that includes logging .

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I can't speak to how the rest of the world manages their forests. The US is a net carbon sink ,and a major reason for that is forest management that includes logging .

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Yes well done but 5% of anything is still 5%, in other words not likely to have much impact

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Who knew it was so easy to be green? And the O*NET? This not the United States of O*merica.

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Hello Steve:

Yeah, it's really interesting what you can do when you change the meaning of words. You can take a dirty job and call it green... You can torture people and call it enhanced interrogation... You know, stuff that government does...

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Yeah, it's really interesting what you can do when you change the meaning of words. You can take a dirty job and call it green..

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I agree, terms like "global climate disruption," "overseas contingency operations," '"man-caused disaster" don't tell the true story. This guy even changed “freedom of religion” to “freedom of worship” for some inexplicabler4 reason so it's no surprise he would label my job a "green job."

Well, back to work. Got to see how many planes and trucks I can get moving today.