Suzanne Simard’s When the Forest Breathes indicts modern logging practices as starkly as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring indicted pesticide use. Her research in British Columbia forests shows that logging machines devastate the forest floor and carbon stored there. In a moment that reads like a scene from a disaster movie, during a Zoom call, she and her research partner discover their data shows a shocking sixty-one percent decrease in stored carbon—five times the amount seen in previous studies. “Holy shit,” writes Simard. Indeed: More carbon is stored in soils and forest floors than all the world’s trees and atmosphere combined. It’s a stunning finding, with profound consequences for the climate. Solutions exist—hand-cutting, Indigenous practices, reciprocity—and there’s little time to waste.