"Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds."

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Alex Shoumatoff is an American journalist and author known for long-form reporting in major publications, including Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. He has written multiple books on environmental and social subjects. He was born on November 4, 1946.

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