Is Second Life saving First Life?

A no-better-specified Carnegie-Knight research about the future of journalism teaching, says that 57% of the teachers uses on-line newspapers' editions to grab students attention, because paper editions are normally considered boring (via DailyOnLine).
If this is the trend, paper will probably disappear from school-classrooms.
As a consequence... should trees should re-appear in forrests?

Is Second Life saving First Life?