Comments on: Facts and Go Figure: The Sneaky Art of Justifying Anything http://atomictango.com/2008/10/24/percentages/ Creative Strategy for the New Marketspace Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:55:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Ken Clark http://atomictango.com/2008/10/24/percentages/comment-page-1/#comment-345 Ken Clark Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:51:53 +0000 http://coolrulespronto.wordpress.com/?p=552#comment-345 to show you why yours and the yellowpagesgoesgreen site analysis is not correct -- the YP industry does not "harvest" any trees. They don't have to. They use all of the residual materials that come from the milling of trees for lumber. If you want to find out more go here: http://www.yptalk.com/archive.cfm?ID=322&CatID=3 <blockquote><strong>Freddy's Comment: Hmmm, so a media company doesn't harvest its own trees, and that it gets its stuff from lumber yards? Next thing you'll be telling me is that Baskin Robbins doesn't keep cows in the backs of its stores, and that it gets its milk from dairies... We could also talk about how buying up all that residual material forces others to chop down trees, but this isn't a forestry blog. Rather, we're discussing the weird logic people will use to justify anything, so thanks for contributing!</strong></blockquote> to show you why yours and the yellowpagesgoesgreen site analysis is not correct — the YP industry does not “harvest” any trees. They don’t have to. They use all of the residual materials that come from the milling of trees for lumber. If you want to find out more go here: http://www.yptalk.com/archive.cfm?ID=322&CatID=3

Freddy’s Comment: Hmmm, so a media company doesn’t harvest its own trees, and that it gets its stuff from lumber yards? Next thing you’ll be telling me is that Baskin Robbins doesn’t keep cows in the backs of its stores, and that it gets its milk from dairies…

We could also talk about how buying up all that residual material forces others to chop down trees, but this isn’t a forestry blog. Rather, we’re discussing the weird logic people will use to justify anything, so thanks for contributing!

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