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SV_BubbleTimeyesterday at 4:05 PM2 repliesview on HN

Those clay tablets needed to be fired and had a negative carbon footprint.

Handmade parchment, or leather carvings if you don’t mind.


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adrianNyesterday at 5:57 PM

Why fire them when you can just reuse them?

wizzwizz4yesterday at 4:42 PM

Those both require cattle farming, which is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (at least 10%, perhaps as high as 19.6%, per https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/food-agriculture-environm...). Stick with papyrus or wax, please.