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TVA: Isn’t it ironic?
Posted By katie allison granju
Michael Silence makes an amusing observation from today’s meeting of TVA directors. The topic of the meeting was conservation:
I’ve just come from a two-hour meeting of the Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors… It was then I noticed that the board’s agenda and all other documents floating around the board room were each printed on just one side of the paper, not both. I can only imagine the amount of paper consumed …
Apr 3rd, 2008
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”—Chinese proverb
Applying this axiom to the paper used in a TVA meeting by printing on both sides of the paper floating around would, in fact, cut that paper usage by about one-half.
But the premise that the information printed on one side is worth something must be challenged. As a former bureaucrat (the TVA is after all a federal bureaucratic agency) I know that the proliferation of words inversely relates to their meaning. The more the garbage written the less meaningful it is.
So the solution would be not to cut their use of paper in half, but to ration it to say, 10 percent of the paper they used today and to hope there would be some meat in it. Step one . . .
Right now, TVA is one of my favorite targets and more of what I have written may be found at http://norsworthyopinion.com
Ernest Norsworthy