The End of Paper

'If plastic bottles will not degrade, they can be reprocessed into the fibers for bike shorts. If the proliferation of paper is destroying the forests, recyclable plastic paper that feels like expensive vellum can be created. If the landfills are filling up, thermal depolymerization may soon make garbage too valuable a source of hydrocarbon raw material for fuels and petrochemical feedstocks to just throw away.' www.oilintheirblood.com [acessed 16/05/10]

Paper paper is now old-fasioned, a bunch of school kids touch it and fold it into paper aviation-machines of sorts we do not yet know. 'This is paper made from trees' their teacher says, 'it was used for centuries until the plasitc we know today was invented. And back then, they printed magazines on paper, daily newspapers, they took notes in class in little paper books and even made stuff out of it, here is a picture of a paper-mashe pig that children like you used to make back then'...
'It's pretty much the same stuff' the boy says 'why did they want to replace it?'; 'They were running out of trees, the world was once covered in trees and by the end of the ** century, there was almost none left. They had to distrobute oxygen inhailators to many people because there wasn't enough trees, and the excess carbon dioxide cause untold havock to the environment too, we're still recovering from those events now.'; 'Why were the people in the olden days so ignorant?' he asks, 'They just didn't know yet, they didn't really know what they were doing back then...'