Wood is a precious raw material. In Sweden, the packaging industry is destroying more and more old-growth forests to make toilet paper or cardboard. Biologists warn these ancient woodlands will no longer be able to help protect ecosystems and the climate.
I live in the middle of this happening. They are getting desperate, SCA (mainly) scrapes every little piece of forest left. When those fuckers finish, it’s just a demolished destroyed piece of land with pieces if trees sticking out, deep tracks from huge harvesting machines. I really wish the nature would have some effective way of protecting against us.
Sadly, one of the side effects of big machinery driving across is the compression of the soil, a few meters across, making it harder for vegetation to grow and recover.
me checks SCA logo on the pack of name-brand tissues laying around oops
(Most of the toilet/tissue paper in the house is recycling at this point, though.)