Being immature, Gliberty hates being told what to do. But the inanity of this message has never caused more than mild irritation at being forced to read for a nanosecond longer than necessary. After all, a literal reading could lead the reader to 1) read the email; 2) decide to print the email; 3) consider a pretty pastoral scene or a view of Earth from an imagined point in space; and 4) print the email.
Another formulation may not lead to a different result.
“When deciding whether you should print this email, please consider the impact on the environment that printing it will have and then don’t print it”.
That doesn’t assist. For a start, it’s too much like an order and those suffering Gliberty like immaturity would print solely because they were asked to not.
Of course, the real risk associated with that message is that the requested consideration would lead many, if not all, would be printers to conclude that the environmental impact of printing would be so negligible as to not alter their inclination.
And look what’s happened now! The stupid message has provoked Gliberty to (not) harm the environment by using power and other resources necessary to create this fatuous post.
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