Posted on 07/11/2005 7:37:46 AM PDT by Alexander Rubin
Toronto-- Don’t reach for a Kleenex next time you feel a sneeze coming on or try to stifle your sniffles with a Kleenex tissue, because you’re helping to kill off an ancient forest. That’s the latest Greenpeace message for tissue-dependent consumers.
Your runny nose could also be doing in the caribou, an endangered species.
Accusing Kleenex manufacturer Kimberly-Clark of clearcutting ancient forests, including Canada’s Boreal forest, Greenpeace activists turned up in full regalia at the company’s Canadian headquarters in Mississauga on Tuesday.
Playing the role of police at a crime scene, Greenpeace’s "Forest Crimes Unit" cordoned off areas of company headquarters with yellow crime scene tape and drew chalk outlines of "victims" in the manner homicide police use at the scene of a real crime.
Without courtesy of judge or jury, Greenpeace finds Kimberly-Clark "guilty of crimes against ancient forests, for making disposable products out of clearcut ancient forests, including Canada’s Boreal forest.
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How about we consumers tell Greenpeace where to get off!
I wish. Can't they all migrate back to their natural habitat in the rainforest, and leave normal people alone?
Maybe we should do like the Greenperps...and blow it out our collective *sses??
Greenpeace Alert!
Range - 1000 yards.
We have a firing solution.
Three fish spread.
It's things like this that make me think back to the Tom Clancy book about eco-terrorists who attempt to launch a biological attack against all menkind in the name of mother earth. At the end they are cornered in a jungle, their clothes and possessions are stripped from them, and they are sent to survive in the jungle with the wild beasts they adore (and are never heard from again).
Since when are Caribou endangered?
Guess I gotta practice my Farmer John technique.
"I't just makes me sick that Kleenex is killing off all the caribou, Ronin, let's go burn down a 'PetSmart"!
Allow the growing of industrial hemp as a subsitute for wood fiber and and we'll stop cutting so manay trees for paper products.
What next, toilet paper?
Do you have to stay within the lines?
so they're against us using tissues...wonder how they wipe their...oh, I forgot, they're crunchies, they don't wipe.
Why clearcut or make tissues out of thousand year old trees?
That's awesome.
Because, most likely, those trees are not a thousand year old. Several hundred, in some cases, perhaps. The thing is that old-growth trees contribute nothing to the ecology of the area. They are even more likely a net detriment. They don't transpire at an active rate, and their growth is slow. Young, actively-growing trees, on the other hand, are transpiring at a high rate; removing carbon dioxide from the air and returning oxygen. They will be tomorrow's old-growth forest, if they are given the opportunity to do what they do best: Grow, which doesn't occur when they are shaded and crowded by older, larger, less actively growing trees.
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