Dogwood Alliance releases Sustaining our Defense report detailing the importance of Southern Forests in the fight against climate change.
We all know that forests are vital in the fight against climate change, but did you know that paper companies like and its customers like KFC could be considered climate criminals?
This morning, in partnership with Climate for Ideas, an environmental research organization based in the UK, Dogwood Alliance released “Sustaining Our Defense: Southern Forests, Carbon, and the Fight Against Global Climate Change.” The report further demonstrates the important role forests play in mitigating global climate change and implicates the paper industry for failing to address this vital issue which greatly weakens our natural defenses. Sustaining Our Defense ReportYou can view the full report here.
If you do not have time to read the full report, check out this short video I made which summarizes the findings and shows why KFC needs to dramatically change the way it thinks about paper packaging and how needs to seriously change its act for the sake of our forests, communities and the planet.
Southern forests are one of the nation’s most powerful tools in combating climate change, yet the paper industry continues to log them at a damaging clip and convert natural forests to plantations which do not do an adequate job at sequestering carbon.
The perfect example is climate criminal ’s two giant paper packaging mills on the mid-Atlantic coast which supply KFC with its iconic buckets and are responsible for increasing atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide by over 7.5 million tons in a single year.According to the EPA, this is equivalent to the emissions from over 1.3 million cars or the annual emissions from nearly two coal fired power plants.
This is unacceptable and needs to change. Please take a moment to watch the video and learn more and share it with your friends on Facebook, Twitter or by forwarding this email. Together we can sustain our defense and protect the forests of the Southern US which are a critical barrier to climate catastrophe.
