Why We Need To Protect Places like Fairy Creek (recorded in Port Renfrew, Vancouver Island, 2025)

The forestry regime in the statist racketeering territory of "Canada" follows a fundamentally colonial (exploitative and anthropocentric) model, in which present day profiteers (and those brainwashed by the corporate propaganda and complicit in the pillaging) bank on the suffering of their great grandchildren and forest lands are treated as terra nullius. The assumption is that nature is capital, a resource to be managed and extracted for modern industrial interests' perpetual economic benefit. Well that profiteering method will soon hit a wall as there is less than 2% of the primary old growth left.
The forest fire resistant, landslide preventing, soil protecting, air cleaning, water cleaning, salmon habitat supporting and water creating old growth is decimated, and so are the hopes for a future worth living in for ten or more generations of humans going forward that will have to pay the karmic consequences for the greed and ignorance of those acting in the present (they will pay the price in having their homes destroyed by landslides, floods, their regular water access and quality diminished, their salmon access diminished or totally destroyed, their air sickened and thinned and their ability to perceive the original architecture and art of the Creator that was intended for the forests of this land stolen from them in the name of instant gratification and profits for those alive today).
This idea is implicit in Canada’s forestry policy and history, most notably in the policy of “sustained yield”. Sustained yield is based on the concept that old-growth forests are an asset to be converted into tree farm plantations, managed by ‘science’, to yield timber resources in perpetuity.
It leads to forest management regimes that involve stripping forests bare, killing their many inhabitants (Ecocide), then replacing them with monocrop tree farms devoid of “competing” vegetation and unable to support the wildlife populations that once called those diverse habitats home. This intensive tree farming system, designed to maximize timber yield, removes the very biodiversity that makes the forests so fire resistant, life nourishing, water cleaning, beautiful, soil stabilizing and salmon run enhancing in the first place.
Right now, as we speak, corporate profiteers are attempting to clear cut 8 blocks of primary temperate rain forest in the head waters of the Upper Walbran Valley (right above the last provincial park on the island to house intact primary temperate rainforest watershed). - (The indigenous elders and forest defenders of the region has created a blockade, August 25, 2025, I can share more info upon request))

Our government in Canada is always saying how "green" and "sustainable" they are, meanwhile, that same government simultaneously supports, subsidizes and profits from clearcut logging of primary forests and endangered old growth stands in Canada.
History has taught us that the racketeering operation that is Statism farms humans just as Teal-Jones and Western Forest Products Ltd. farms forests. They both decimate the natural beauty, diversity, uniqueness and God given gifts of that place/being and replace them with implanted monocultures of trees/thinking intended to perpetuate exploitation and extraction in the name of greed, domination, human exceptionalism and the myth of “progress”.
Just as the farmed trees grow in ways that make them weak and susceptible to disease, the statist factory farmed humans in the farms for humans called nation states can also be crippled from achieving their true potential, their minds are weak and imaginations stunted (when they prioritize their allegiance to a flag over their allegiance to the Earth). Their priorities distorted by the inherently immoral institutions that they have been indoctrinated to worship and (like the farmed trees) this prevents them from connecting with and contributing to the larger community of life they are a part of fully, making them susceptible to being exploited and more of a liability than a contributing symbiotically connected member of a community.
Thus, it is not just corporate capture of academic institutions we must address, but also the intrinsically ecologically degenerate nature of the statist regimes we were born into and taught to put on a pedestal.
As long as we are swearing allegiance to flags and statist regimes that thrive on exploitation of rare ecosystems in the name of greed first (and thinking of the watersheds and bioregions that support our lives second) we are committing treason against the Earth and sacrificing the health, joy, potential to perceive beauty and livelihoods of our great grandchildren on the alter of “progress”, “civilization” and instant gratification.

For more information read "Old Growth/Tree species distribution, soil depth and linguistic artifacts as indicators of cultural maturity"

https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/tree-species-distribution-soil-depth

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