That's what I was wondering. We can't redirect the entire output of society towards museum conservation, so some tradeoffs will have to be made. That isn't a problem, just reality.

When a large book turns into an epub/zip that is under 100kb, what makes the paper so important?

When you add up all the books that were required for our careers, would they be a megabyte?

The little that we understand is uncomfortably summarized this way.