{"id":58572,"date":"2021-07-12T07:16:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T12:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58572"},"modified":"2021-07-12T07:16:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T12:16:09","slug":"speaking-for-the-old-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58572","title":{"rendered":"Speaking for the Old Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speaking for the Old Growth<\/a><\/h3>\n

Famed tree botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger has a tough message for BC Premier John Horgan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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\u2018These giants of the universe with their unique DNA represent a living library of medicine for the citizens of the world,\u2019 says biochemist Diana Beresford-Kroeger.\u00a0Photo for The Tyee by Colin Rowe.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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The\u00a0world recognized<\/a> tree botanist, biochemist and bestselling author Diana Beresford-Kroeger is angry.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m furious actually,\u201d she says over the phone from her home in Merrickville, Ontario.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this day and age I am furious that they are logging the last old-growth forests during a pandemic. It is sneaky.\u201d<\/p>\n

She squarely directs the bulk of her considerable wrath against the British Columbia government of Premier John Horgan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole idea of a democracy is to look after the whole,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

And she thinks that fine idea has been undermined by Horgan\u2019s commitment to the industrial logging of the province\u2019s last remaining giant trees.<\/p>\n

And all to take advantage of rising prices during a pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is so underhanded. It\u2019s like watching a plumber perform brain surgery,\u201d she adds with a ladle of Irish wrath.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe liquidation of B.C.\u2019s ancient forests and their rare genetic richness, represents a direct assault on Indigenous people and their ability to survive,\u201d she argues. \u201cIt is a form of mass murder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beresford-Kroeger knows a thing or two about colonialism. Orphaned at an early age, she just barely escaped the clutches of Ireland\u2019s dreaded\u00a0Magdalene Laundries<\/a>, brutal residential schools for orphans, unwed mothers and prostitutes.<\/p>\n

Raised by traditional Celts in the old ways and\u00a0Brehon Laws<\/a>, she learned how England\u2019s colonialism systematically robbed the Irish of their language, customs and, yes, their once great forests.<\/p>\n

Ireland once had magnificent forests but the patriarchs of the British Empire played a powerful role in their destruction, all for money.<\/p>\n

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Speaking for the Old Growth Famed tree botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger has a tough message for BC Premier John Horgan. \u2018These giants of the universe with their unique DNA represent a living library of medicine for the citizens of the world,\u2019 says biochemist Diana Beresford-Kroeger.\u00a0Photo for The Tyee by Colin Rowe. The\u00a0world recognized tree botanist, biochemist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5549,94,103,22785,379,18270,26276,23884],"class_list":["post-58572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-andrew-nikiforuk","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-diana-beresford-kroeger","tag-government","tag-john-horgan","tag-old-growth-forests","tag-thetyee-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58573,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58572\/revisions\/58573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}