Thread by @WalkerAmerica

I hereby call on the @nytimes to STOP their print media business NOW.

NYT murders trees to print newspapers at 27 locations which take a trip (by truck/plane), sometimes thousands of miles, burning fossil fuels & trees all the way.

Let’s dive deeper 🧵
nytimes.com/2018/08/05/ins…

The average paid print Sunday circulation of the New York Times was 745,000 copies in 2022. In 2012, it was 2,138,500. So let’s conservatively call it 1 million per Sunday on average. That’s 52 MILLION papers per year on Sunday alone!

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In 2022, the average weekday print circulation of @nytimes was approximately 310,000 copies, less than half the figure recorded in 2014. But to be nice, let’s say 400,000 papers per “week day” (Monday-Saturday). That’s 2.4 MILLION papers per week!

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Combining weekday and Sunday papers, conservatively, that’s 3.4 MILLION newspapers per week, or 176.8 MILLION newspapers per year.

But how many TREES are MURDERED because of the reckless printing of the @nytimes?

Let’s find out ⬇️

A pine tree that measures 45 feet long & 8-inch diameter produces 10,000 sheets of paper. But the average sheet of paper is 8.5” x 11” & each @nytimes wastepaper is 12" x 22" when unfolded.

So, conservatively, let’s say each NYT wastepaper page is 2 pieces of normal paper ⬇️

On Sept. 14, 1987, the @nytimes wastepaper weighed 12 pounds & had 1,612 pages.

That means just over 3 newspapers killed one tree.

Extrapolating to the present day, the NYT kills 59 MILLION trees per year!

This is UNACCEPTABLE.

But it gets worse… @nytimes has long invested in paper companies. It is the minority OWNER — through a company called Donohue Malbaie — of papermaking machinery at the Resolute Forest Company plant in Clermont, Quebec, which produced 218,000 metric tons of newsprint in 2015.

So just how much CO2 is @nytimes pumping into the atmosphere each year?

According to the Arbor Day Foundation, in one year a mature tree absorbs more than 48 pounds of CO2.

Since NYT murders 59 MILLION trees per year, that means they create 2.832 BILLION POUNDS OF C02 ANNUALLY

BUT IT GETS EVEN WORSE!

@nytimes was founded in 1852; that’s 171 YEARS.

That means they’ve MURDERED OVER 10 BILLION TREES and created over 484 BILLION POUNDS OF CO2

This wastepaper practice must not be allowed to continue.

Here’s the scary part: this 484 BILLION pounds of CO2 is only their direct environmental cost based on tree murders — it doesn’t account for all the wasted fuel during wastepaper transport, electricity wasted by facilities, and hot air blown by @nytimes writers (more CO2).

In conclusion, @nytimes murders MILLIONS of trees per year pumping BILLIONS of pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere to print their shitrag wastepaper full of propaganda yet they have the gall to call #Bitcoin wasteful.

Give me a freaking break.

This is a real photo (with very minimal editing) of the @nytimes headquarters…

Just look at all that smog… Look at the burning trees…

If only the NYT would mine #Bitcoin instead of killing trees to print their wastepaper.

BREAKING: shocking new photos have emerged of the @nytimes tree-killing operation.

Look at these massive, evil-looking machines…

Look at the countless rolls of paper that were once living trees…

This wasteful industry must be stopped.
#NYTimesUp #StopThePresses #SaveTheTrees

More shocking revelations from the @nytimes tree-murder scandal ⬇️

In April 2022, NYT had 13 climate activists ARRESTED for protesting outside the NYT paper distribution hub in Queens, NY.

Not only does NYT kill trees, but they kill free speech, too.
#NYTimesUp #StopThePresses

The @nytimes is no stranger to silencing climate activists…

In June 2019 the NYT had 70 activists arrested at a climate change rally outside New York Times building…

We demand the NYT #StopThePresses and pledge to replant every tree they’ve murdered.
#NYTimesUp

The #StopThePresses movement is going viral.

People across the world are lending their time and energy to stop the wasteful @nytimes printing practices, which murder millions of trees per year.

Thank you, @anilsaidso for creating this image for the movement.
#NYTimesUp

BREAKING NEWS:

The #StopThePresses 🛑 movement just launched their Twitter campaign

@NYTimesUp

#NYTimesUp

‼️ MORE BREAKING NEWS ‼️

@NYTimesUp just launched their website.

The global movement to #StopThePresses 🛑 is truly going viral.

Will @nytimes respond and pledge to stop killing trees?

#NYTimesUp

nytimesup.org

‼️‼️EVEN MORE BREAKING NEWS‼️‼️

Fearing that @nytimes will try to silence @NYTimesUp on centralized social media platforms, the #StopThePresses movement announced that they are also on #nostr

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#NYTimesUp

https://twitter.com/NYTimesUp/status/1646977122110414850

The #StopThePresses 🛑 movement has turned into a global phenomenon, inspiring activists and artists alike.

@NYTimesUp continues to demand @nytimes stop their wanton killing of trees & wasteful electricity use.

The silence from the legacy media is deafening…

#NYTimesUp