Getting rid of books is rarely, if ever, a good thing. It is sometimes, though, a useful thing.
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A shameful and disgusting thing that's happening in Canada, part of the ongoing suppression of environmental science. (Evidently the Harper government doesn't want to let little things like scientific evidence and the fate of the biosphere get in the way of oil money.)
Canadian libricide: Tories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives
Back in 2012, when Canada’s Harper government announced that it would close down national archive sites around the country, they promised that anything that was discarded or sold would be digitized first.
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