The Paris climate-change agreement is a remarkable document. If every printed copy were wadded up into a gigantic ball, it could be stuffed down the chimney of a Chinese coal plant, reducing its emissions to zero. If they printed a few hundred million more copies, they could be laid on the shores of vulnerable islands and soak up all the rising water.
Thirty-one pages to reduce the temperature 0.2 degrees Celsius, you say? Remarkable. Why stop there? A 62-page accord would have pushed it down 0.4 degrees. But what if someone fell asleep at the photocopier and 6,000 pages were printed off? A new ice age, glaciers in Kansas, mastodons roaming Times Square — no, 31 pages is just right. And thus the Earth is saved!
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