Please consider the environment before printing this email

Really? Must you?

Despite superficial similarities, this type of virtue signalling is not from the same school that brings you the “please consider the environment and, coincidentally, our massive laundry bill — by reusing filthy towels”.

It is waffle — sanctimonious waffle at that — from functionaries who, presumably, themselves believe it sensible to print off all emails they are sent (for why else would they be cautioning others not to?) but for whom the clinching argument in fending off the temptation to do so is the damage it will do to the environment — rather than the utter pointlessness of the act.

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