British Columbia

Mature and old-growth forests, with larger trees than younger forests, play an outsized role in accumulating carbon and keeping it out of the atmosphere. These forests are especially resistant to wildfires and other natural disturbances as the climate warms.

We've known this for ages now and our governments (throughout the Pacific Northwest) continue to allow this plundering. A few dollars here and there is better than saving the planet, I guess.

Isn't it a little cringe when people in our hemisphere blab on about the Amazon rainforest but fully ignore the fact that there is less than 5% of our own primary rainforest left? And not even half of that 5% is protected (i.e. still being logged).

Fucked up.