The Issue with Tissue - a boreal love story documents the little known, largely untold story of the boreal forest and th | dG1fb09hNDRhMnhvYUE
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:02 >> The toilet paper industry in the United States is
00:04 an enormous purchaser of pulp from the boreal forest.
00:08 We are literally flushing our forests down the toilet.
00:12 [MUSIC]
00:15 >> It's been described as the lungs of the planet.
00:18 >> It's the homeland of 600 indigenous communities.
00:22 >> You can't remove us.
00:23 [MUSIC]
00:26 >> If you want to learn about life,
00:28 let me take you to the land.
00:29 [MUSIC]
00:31 >> Countless lakes, countless rivers,
00:33 not just our home, it's our mother.
00:35 [MUSIC]
00:37 >> A lot of the fiber is being used to wipe the ass of corporate America.
00:42 >> They don't see a tree with life,
00:44 they see a tree that makes money.
00:46 [MUSIC]
00:48 >> We've had to endure the brutalness of another people.
00:52 >> They killed your grandpa, the buffalo, so that you will starve.
00:57 [MUSIC]
00:59 >> We've got these concentration camps, we'll call them reserves.
01:02 >> And then of course I get shipped to the residential school.
01:06 >> Change their religion, change their language.
01:09 >> Designed to strip the Indian from the child.
01:11 >> Break them right down, destroy them.
01:13 >> Our connection to our land has been robbed.
01:17 [MUSIC]
01:19 >> They lied to us that the animals were ours.
01:22 They lied to us when they said the trees in the forests were ours.
01:26 That tree is family.
01:28 [MUSIC]
01:30 >> If you take a part of my forest, it will no longer be a forest.
01:34 And I don't know what that will become, but I know that I will not survive there.
01:39 [MUSIC]