The Issue with Tissue - A Boreal Love Story | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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.

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