Ecosystems

Alice Korngold

Chapter 4 in A Better World, Inc, 2014, pp 65-84 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Until 2009, one of the world’s largest producers of tissues and toilet paper sourced fibers from trees that were clear-c-t from Canada’s boreal forest. Destruction to these forests threatened the region, which is home to nearly a million aboriginal peoples, as well as the woodland caribou, lynx, grizzly bears, wolverine, and one billion migratory birds.2 The boreal is also the largest storehouse of terrestrial carbon on Earth, so deforestation in this area undermines its impact in reversing up to 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions-more than all the cars, trucks, planes, boats, and trains in the world combined.3

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-33712-2_4

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