SAN FRANCISCO, 6 December – Canada is a world leader in destroying its Northern Native Forests, inflicting agony upon the Animal Kingdom and deliberately ruining an indispensable planetary carbon storehouse.
Why were Canadian delegates at the COP30, Brazil, boasting about their climate targets? When in fact, Canada is quickly razing its Native Forests, the best defenders against worsening climate storms.
The Canadian government has paid hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars (subsidies) to an Indonesian palm oil company, Sinar Mas, that’s tethered to Canada’s largest pulp and paper maker, Paper Excellence.
Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, has recently committed $1.2bn for 2026 and 2027 Native Forest subsidies, to accelerate the plundering of wilderness across the vast Northern Native Forests of the Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Labrador.
Each year, about a million hectares of the world’s remaining Northern Canadian Native Forests, home to salmon, grizzly bears, lynx, wolves, moose, caribou, rabbits, billions of migratory birds and others, are clearcut, chemically coated and then rolled into toilet paper (TP).
Wolves are essential Native Forest carbon keepers. Image credit: ChurchillWild
Plundering Nature and the disdain for the vital planetary role of the Northern Native Forests that make clouds to cool the planet, create rivers in the sky to irrigate breadbaskets, store 300 billion tons of carbon and support networks of interdependent cooperative biological communities, is appalling. This insatiable lust for more Mother Earth blood-money is jeopardising earthly colonisation.
By the bye, most of Canada’s toilet paper is exported to the United States, tariff-free under a preexisting agreement. The average American consumes a whopping 141 rolls, or almost half a roll every day, each year. (20 percent of the world’s toilet paper is devoured by 4 per cent of the world’s population.) That’s a profligate 48bn rolls of unrepeatable complex life, Native Forests, flushed annually into sewers that eventually empties carcinogenic PFAS poisons into the oceans.
So, what’s the answer? For starters, wipe YOUR bum sparingly with tree-free TP (hemp or bamboo). Or more cost effectively and unwasteful, attach a handheld bidet sprayer to your toilet and use an organic towel to dry off. Rinse and repeat. Easy peasy.
We ALL matter. Collectively our Mother Earth-loving actions are formidable and heartening. Don’t give up the ship!
Agitate. Disrupt. Defend.
Reese Halter is a bees/trees/seas defender.
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