Paper is recyclable! Managing our resources and re- planting our forests is more important than strip mining. I lived for 13 years on a farm and woodland needs to be managed and that includes felling some trees. You cannot just leave (pun intended) them or some species will be wiped out.

As for lithium which is used to power many electronic devices, it is only mined in very few places, it is then shipped to China to make the batteries which are extremely toxic. And then they are shipped around the world. Much more environmentally friendly to grow a tree, fell it and then grow another.