Oh, do please burst into flames.

In an environmentally friendly way, of course. But yes, Mr. Environment Scold. Do.

Valentine’s Day Is an Environmental Travesty: The carbon costs of greeting cards

Assessments of the difference between the carbon footprints of a paper greeting card and an emailed card vary hugely. One estimate claims that making and transporting the average paper holiday card produces about 18.5 grams of carbon dioxide, roughly 600 times the 0.03 grams that it says is generated by the average email. Another puts the carbon footprint of an average greeting card at 60 times the footprint of an email — one-tenth of the first estimate.

Sheesh.