re: EPA wants Alaskans to stop burning wood for warmth

Just burn coal.

Seems pretty obvious to me the EPA wants people in Alaska to freeze to death.

Guys, this wood burning garbage went into effect Jan 1, 2014. Has been in conversation much longer than that, I'm sure. It's a non-issue. To be resurrected now is just another topic to bicker about. No one is having their fires put out by the government.

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It's not the government's motherfickin job to tell someone how to heat their homes. Piss off statist.

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It's their job to provide clean water and air. That's like saying the gov shouldn't tell us to not put lead in our water. "It's the only water we have, want us to die of thirst?"

If I'm cold, I'll burn wood or coal if I damn well please.

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If I'm cold, I'll burn wood or coal if I damn well please.

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Ok, tough man

Typical bureaucrats.

They want to save Alaskans from the smoke by freezing them to death.

fricking idiots.

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It's their job to provide clean water and air.

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Wrong. The EPA was created in 1970 because Lake Erie was a mess and LA had smog. Both problems could have been handled without the EPA. But once the EPA was established they did what all govt agencies do. They overstepped their original purpose in order to justify their existence and grow their budget.

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It's their job to provide clean water and air. That's like saying the gov shouldn't tell us to not put lead in our water. "It's the only water we have, want us to die of thirst

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No, it's become politicized. Their job is to harass states where the current administration doesn't have widespread support.

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There have been stories on this in the New York Times.

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Here's where you made your first mistake.

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Wood puts particles in the air and the nature of winter with temperature inversions means that the smoke and particles don't just harmlessly dissipate in the larger atmosphere.

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Man been burning wood for thousands of years to get warm, & suddenly we know better like adding automobiles with frickin lasers attached to their head aren't causing much more damage.

Maybe we should go back to carts & buggies too! Oh, but that's cruel to horses!
Let's just not do anything, ever. Earth is a sentient being & we are not.