HOW many thousands of trees must have lost their lives to supply the paper for all those campaign posters, leaflets, flyers, handbills and sample ballots.
Elections are very cruel to trees.
The paper scattered in a single polling place after Monday s elections alone must have decimated a small forest to provide the pulp. In many cases, the amount of propaganda materials distributed by candidates are an overkill, in the belief that more is better. Less than 10 percent of those materials are read by voters. The rest just pollutes the environment. In the case of campaign posters, no sooner had workers pasted a candidate s posters on walls than a new set of workers comes along to paste another candidate s posters over them.