%26quot;Many products with roots in Canada%26#039;s boreal forest find their way into our homes, so our thoughtless consumption of them drives the destruction of the forest. The advocacy group Forest Ethics reports that about half of the paper used to print magazines, newsprint, and the 17 billion catalogues produced annually in the United States was once boreal bird habitat. The majority of mailed catalogues are produced using virgin boreal wood fiber logged in clearcuts as big as 30 square miles. Disposable paper products like Charmin, Puffs, Kleenex, and Bounty use more than 2.5 million tons of pulp annually, most of it unrecycled, from trees sawn in the boreal. In fact, Canada%26#039;s boreal forests are razed at a rate of about five acres a minute to feed the voracious consumption of wood and wood products of the United States alone.%26quot;
and from Forest Ethics
%26quot;If you care about clean air and water, you care about the Boreal Forest. Stretching from Alaska clear across Canada to the Atlantic Ocean, the Boreal is an astonishing wilderness—one of the largest intact ecosystems in the world. It holds more freshwater than anywhere else on the planet and plays an essential role in cleaning the air we breathe. After the oceans, the Boreal stores more carbon than anywhere else in the world. It’s also home to threatened species like woodland caribou and wolverine, as well as wolves, bears, fish and half of North America%26#039;s songbirds.%26quot;
So it is a huge carbon sink, as long as it stays intact and healthy. The major carbon sink for north america. And we%26#039;re using it for junk mail. 0% 0 Votes