SSJ12, you poor, sad man. When a businessman wants to make a profit they will sell whatever makes them money. If paper makes them money, they will keep replanting trees as long as they can keep making money. As soon as paper drops in value, though, they will clear-cut those forests for whatever makes money.
Millions of acres of forests will be destroyed if we as a world go paper-less, because the people that own that land in fact do not have to plant trees there in most cases. I know where the idea came from, but it's localized to pretty specific parts of the country (in the US, and non-existant in most of the world). A tree is planted for each that is cut down because the land-owner wants profits not just today but in ten years as well, not because they are told they have to. If paper is unprofitable, they will plant something else, and no one will actually stop them (regardless of laws, even, outside of the small bits of land reserved by the government... which are generally hardwood forests and unsuitable for paper-making to begin with) because business always trumps ideals. Our insatiable urge for paper pre-internet actually caused the US to become REforested, and the opposite will happen as we use less of it.
Economics trumps everything else in the end, and if you really care about there being trees then the paper industry is your best friend. Any illegal tree cutting is either linked to hard wood (building materials) or appropriating land for agriculture (like in the rain forest, where no one is going to give a damn about your opinion) and perhaps the occsional Christmas tree. But its not linked to soft wood (used for paper), and any amount of work to eliminate paper does nothing to stop that illegal harvesting.
If you really want to see more trees and not less, support the industries that actually have a vested interest in them existing. Paper companies want their resources to last them as long as possible, people trying to make ranches and houses really don't.
Seriously, though, in advanced countries paper has been a force for reforestation in areas that had been deforested for agriculture. If you take away their profits you take away their motivation to plant trees. And once that becomes finalized, I guarentee you that you'll be seeing less trees around the world instead of more.
You do not have the right to never be offended.
