re: EPA wants Alaskans to stop burning wood for warmth

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There have been stories on this in the New York Times. 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. People are breathing in smoke and other particles which has been shown to be bad to your health.

Sure if the atmosphere at winter was such that the air could just blow away there would be no problem. It's like forms a smog in the winter that gets trapped in valleys.

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Holy shite!

You knuckledraggers are such troglodytes that you would freeze to death in any cold climate at any point in the history of the planet pre-electricity for fear of the scary wood-eating red flower.

Are you aware that people have been burning wood for warmth in frosty climes for literally hundreds of thousands of years?