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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation. This

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is Forest Stories. I'm the Poet in the Forest, a

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children's series that I pinned out in the nineteen nineties. Now,

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none of it would be possible if it wasn't for

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this forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. I

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talk about it so much that I thought, maybe it's

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time that you get to know what has inspired me

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for thirty years. Thanks for being a part of the conversation.

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Welcome back to the forest week number two. Of the invaders,

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those that are laying these fiber optic lines inside this soil.

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I can't find any research on how in my heart

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I feel like it's disrupting life beneath the surface of

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this forested floor. And here's the reason why I continued

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to be absolutely spiritually injured by this. It's all based

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on the story of the mushrooms. Mushrooms, fung guy beneath

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the surface of the forest floor, a loud tree to

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communicate with each other. That's how they talk, that's how

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they grow together, that's how they prepare. Mushrooms are so

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important to the process of this forest and other forests

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around the world. Once again, fungi beneath the surface of

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the forested floor. And yet these people who are laying

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this fiber optic into the planet, nobody wants to say, Hey, look,

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they're bringing injury to the communication lines between the trees.

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What is that like for the trees? Have they lost

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their cable? Did they tap into their power lines? What

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is going on with the process of growth between all

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living things inside this forest, all because somebody is laying

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the groundwork for fiber opting. Oh yeah, we humans, we

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want faster internet, we want beautiful pictures on our flat screens,

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we want AI. I get it. I totally understand the process,

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But what is the cost to nature. Nobody's talking about it.

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I can't find any information about what grows and what

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goes on beneath the surface of this forest, but it's documented.

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I said it. I'm against it, but I'm just me

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being me. Thanks for being a part of the conversation.