[xzins]

From the article: EPA also argues that forcing people to ditch their wood stoves will result in 360 to 810 fewer death per year from reduced emissions of carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds.

Why would the EPA be arguing that?

[jennings2004]

Can’t you just visualize the nerd who generated this estimate...show me your “Common Core” derivations, please!

[Jonty30]

The twice burning wood stoves supposedly give off less emissions because there are less particles.

Personally, I think it’s to make people more dependent because they can’t turn off wood.

[goldstategop]

So?

There’s no fixing human stupidity. Government bureaucrats can’t prevent it.

Forcing people to change how they live will never work.

[ctdonath2]

Because fiddling with advanced statistics can help you rationalize banning something you don’t like.

Pollution, as a whole, causes a quantifiable number of premature fatalities. Wood stoves put out a quantifiable level of pollution. By reducing the pollutants produced by wood stoves, they conclude they have reduced the pollution-caused premature fatalities by 360 to 810. Apply the Leftist imperative to “do something”, and they proceed to ban sale of wood stoves producing more than the legislated quantity of pollutants. Never mind that unintended consequences might lead to more premature deaths than the statisticians concluded they are preventing...