Fairy Creek old-growth logging protests

I have had a few people reference like, yo, you're like the Lorax.

And I was like, but it was after I said it about myself because the song Fairy Creek, Fairy Creek, the old girl's forest right now that, I'm sure a lot of you know, a lot of you don't, is being cut down.

2,000 year old cedar trees and a lot of trees are being cut.

So I gotta rap about this and talk about this, because I feel like these sacred, ancient, old growth ecosystems are so precious.

like, yeah, let's just destroy it so we can get money for the next 40 years.

It's like to make more technology that's going to get thrown away that we're going to be outdated in 40 years anyway.

I'm like, there's nothing more precious than sacred ancient oases in the middle of the desert or old growth forests like Fairy Creek.

And yeah, I want to rap about my life and my emotions and my experiences, but some of the biggest experiences I have are out in nature.

How familiar are you, David, with what went on in Ferry Creek just up the road from us in Victoria and what's happening now?

Yeah, quite familiar with what happened in Fairy Creek.

I wasn't at Fairy Creek, actually.

I was recovering from a pretty severe concussion during that time.

I can't comment as someone who was there and saw the on-the-ground nuance, but I can say, you know, on a zooming-out level, what Fairy Creek is emblematic of is a First Nation being caught without a choice.

So the Pachydot Nation...

Some members of the Pachydad do not want to log their old growth and for many different reasons.

His nation wants to log this old growth and therefore it needs to happen.

Actually, that's arguably what they're the most famous for, which is kind of unfortunate.

But I thought about, I was thinking about peaceful protest a lot because I had some friends that were protesting up at Fairy Creek, the logging of the old growth forest there, and they wanted me to go with them, and I felt like I couldn't because I was wanting to be so close to my grandmother at that point in time, so I didn't leave.

I stayed in the Kootenays, and I hung out with my grandma a whole bunch, and this was a song that I wrote when I was thinking about peaceful protest and how it's sadly often met with violence.

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