I have about 2,000 ebooks on my Kindle account, but I haven’t read them all. The ones I have yet to read have yet to see any expenditure of energy—literally or figuratively—from me, and thus have arguably made zero environmental impact to date. I have no clue the impact the hundreds of physical ‘dead tree’ books I own have had, but a significant number of them were acquired second hand. How, exactly, do we calculate their impact? Is it all on the original owner’s environmental footprint and do I thus get a free pass for buying a used copy? or does it divided among the environmental footprints of multiple owners, past, present, and possibly future, making the footprint of each owner a little shallower, albeit wider?
Sedans are few and far between because manufacturers have all but stopped making them to free up production capacity so they can build more (and more profitable) humongous SUV’s, so it follows that they’re now being pushed as law enforcement vehicles.
A bachelor’s degree is intended to take four years to complete, but it’s not uncommon for students to take five, or even six years to finish; thus, fifth-year senior is one year beyond the expected four.
Been there, drank that!