You may remember me as LemonGin on this server or @LaurenIpsum.
I live in the boreal forest with my husband, our dogs, and an aggressively affectionate orange cat.
By day, I'm a part-time caretaker and a tarot card reader. By night, I'm usually asleep. I have a sensible car and sensible shoes, indicating I am a proper adult. I love the hockey, the WRC, Formula One, moose, hollandaise, folk music, and trees. I am a land of contrasts.
#Canada is wiping out the #boreal#forest#ecosystem: "Major changes are needed in boreal forest mgmt in Ontario & Quebec for it to be ecologically sustainable, incl greater emphasis on protection of older #forests," researchers say in study
HELP SAVE BOREAL FOREST by calling on Costco to use recycled or forest-free materials in its toilet paper
In the time it takes you to brush your teeth tonight, #Canada 's #BorealForest will lose three football fields of #trees.
It's alarming, but the culprit is softer than you think: We're watching the boreal disappear before our eyes in part because #Costco uses boreal trees to make toilet paper.
#Costco sells a billion rolls of toilet paper each year. It's the company's best-selling item. Stacked on top of each other, those rolls would soar to heights of 300 million feet -- the same as 240,000 Empire State Buildings.
But those rolls don't come from thin air. They're chopped from the #boreal and flushed away to infinity.
Consider #Procter&Gamble (P&G), the parent company of #Charmin, #Puffs, #Bounty and more: About 40% of the wood pulp that #P&G uses for its North American paper products comes from #Canada, where the #timber industry's chainsaws are busy chipping away at the #boreal.
In June, #FortAlbany#FirstNation was #evacuated due to #wildfires .
The #Cree community is near the #JamesBay coast and surrounded by the #boreal forest and peatlands.
Community members shared photos and videos on social media of massive smoke plumes above the forest's edge, with the low-lying #peatlands nearby.
“If #canada ‘s Wolves returns to their former glory, their predation of moose would create a healthier #boreal forest that could potentially cancel out all of Canada’s current #carbonemissions ” Half Earth Socialism