A starting point for understanding more about the ancient pristine carbon sink boreal forest of the northern hemisphere is to read through the following link:

https://www.treehugger.com/fascinating-facts-about-the-boreal-forest-4858782

We humans are now into the final phase of destroying our planet, we are finding excuses to see the permafrost melt, releasing methane from the once hard frozen land, as an opportunity (thus in denial about the threat)

As the permafrost retreats, millions of acres will be logged then ploughed, drilled on, built on, polluted into and soon destroyed by human greed. We will be told it is to ‘feed the world’ as resources once relied upon become untenable in other parts of the world. Plenty of clean, fresh water just waiting for us to pollute, like we always do.

As we log the forest, we lose the carbon capture and send it up to intensify the greenhouse gas blanket overhead,  which is already killing us with extreme weather.

We will drill for oil of course. “We need it as we transition away from fossil fuels.” They will tell us to keep calm, that climate change is a hoax and all extreme weather is once in 500 years, but we all know it is now every year, even more than once a year across the globe.

We never listen to the wisdom of those who respect everything on this beautiful planet.

Vigliotti, in his book ‘Before It’s Gone’, talks to an indigenous woman who may be the last of her generation as parcels of the boreal forest are sold off around her territory in Alaska:

“Agriculture is probably something we need to get into as a state, but what does it look like? It doesn’t look like this,” she said, referring to the state’s new auction. “Have you read the terms of the sale? Basically, anyone can buy the land and do whatever they want with it.” Those terms were sprinkled over seventy-two pages in the “2022 Alaska State Agricultural Land Offering” brochure, alongside maps of each of the twenty-four parcels up for grabs. And Eva was right—nowhere in the fine print were buyers required to actually cultivate the land. Instead, they only had to commit to clearing at least 25 percent of the parcels within five years and keeping it in “farmable” condition, meaning free of trees. The auction was open to anyone from anywhere in the world, including businesses and corporations, and there was nothing stopping a single person, business, or corporation from buying all twenty-four parcels. “When I hear that, I think many things. Land grab, for starters, but then, what will that land be used for? What’s to stop big factory farms from moving in or massive housing developments from being built?” asked Eva. “This is the boreal forest we’re talking about. It’s sacred land.” Eva’s concerns were valid, and not eased by what Erik told me when I had spoken with him during our tour. “We want real farmers. We want to provide opportunities. We can’t tell them exactly what to do with those opportunities,” he said. It all sounded like a take-me-at-my-word “handshake deal,” and those rarely end well.