Random thought on paper

When I was growing up, our elementary school classes would consistently ram down our throats the importance of the environment and how we needed to protect it. I'm grateful for them doing this, I think it helped to create a generation of more eco-conscious citizens. After reading this story , however, I wonder if one part of what we were taught may no longer be relevant. As everything in school is typed instead of handwritten, as newspapers and magazines are shifting to the Internet, and as even books are now available online, it seems that people have less and less need for paper. I have no clue if this phenomenon is great enough to have an effect just yet but it seems to me if we don't us paper anymore, that whole debate about over logging may go away.