Why must people burn wood???
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Anonymous
| Some people here are fine with burning down city blocks of Minneapolis & torching Teslas. But don’t you dare burn a log in your fireplace. |
Anonymous
| It's relaxing. As long as you don't do it every night, it's probably ok. |
Anonymous
All the people saying it’s fine because science and comparative CO2 emissions are ignoring the part about how unhealthy it is to inhale particulates. You know, the particulate matter readings that show up in the Apple weather app when it’s worse than normal, like from forest fires… No one will say that burning wood in neighborhoods releases more PM into the air than forest fires, but we don’t want to inhale forest fire air, and inhaling smoke from burning wood in neighborhoods (a completely voluntary, avoidable activity that benefits no one except the burners and their vibes) is just a lesser version of that. We get it, people who burn wood don’t care. This is a vent for those who do care about inhaling smoke PM and don’t burn wood for fun/vibes/nostalgia/cozy feelings. |
Anonymous
That's an immature response. OP's tone was off putting, but the message is legit if you take time to research the issues. |
Anonymous
Nobody is fine with that. |
Anonymous
Why? |
Anonymous
| I’d rather smell a fart than burning wood |
Anonymous
More accurate to say that we have intelligently assessed the matter and determined that our contribution to air pollution can be reduced much more effectively— like orders of magnitude more— by making any one of several lifestyle choices, such as not ordering “cute” disposable clothes and decorations from china, or living in a walkable neighborhood. How many miles a year do you put on your cars PP? |
Anonymous
lol! 😂 |
Anonymous
Come to my house and you can smell both |
Anonymous
| It stinks so bad |
Anonymous
I knew someone(s) would say other things cause more harm so this is of lesser magnitude and that’s what mattters. The point is that this is a completely optional leisure activity that literally only benefits the wood burners with only negative effects to others (and themselves but whatever). It’s great to try and reduce pollution in all the other ways. It’s not an either/or. Cars are needed to get places, work, etc. in a timely manner anywhere that’s not a dense urban area with good public transport — a handful of cities in this country. Not that it matters for the purposes of this post, but I drive an electric car less than 10m a day on weekdays and not much more on weekends and I don’t buy fast fashion or disposable goods or plastic stuff and avoid takeout and am not telling people to do any of those things, but this post is about burning wood. If you want to tell yourself that your contribution to reducing air pollution by avoiding fast fashion, etc. justifies you burning wood, and what does it matter anyway when factories and other countries pollute way more and there’s nothing we can do about that, that’s fine and probably a common mental justification people use. That doesn’t mean it’s not an self-indulgence with harmful effects to burn wood, especially when it’s not needed for heat and it forces everyone around to inhale the smoke (not like a cabin in the woods with no central heating), especially when it’s 75 degrees. |
Anonymous
Come to my house and you can smell both and something else (shoo-wee) when I take my shoes off exposing my socks. My feet alone use up all of my carbon credits, or something. |
Anonymous
You are a naive idiot. |
Anonymous
| PLEASE DO NOT BURN WOOD TONIGHT! |