Yep. WAY too close to their desired reality. And it is a reality for the environmentalist Nazis - especially in Britain but it's coming here to America too.
My folks live on several acres of land on the edge of suburbia about 30 miles out of a big city in what is one of the reddest of red states - same house for about 20 years. Part of the acreage is wooded so they get a lot of brush on their property, and as long as they've lived there my dad would gather it up with his tractor and put it in a burn pile. He always did it in a perfectly safe and controlled way, never burned when there were drought conditions etc.
That all came to an abrupt end a couple months ago when he was burning one day and the police showed up on the front door. Apparently their county was included in some new regional emissions reduction scheme by the EPA, and it imposed regulations against private citizens from burning stuff on their own property. And the local cops had been tasked with enforcing it. They told him if he did it again he'd be subject to a fine.
I’ve heard about such laws over the past few years. Here in Md., I don’t think I’ve seen anyone burn anything on their own property in decades. Raking the leaves and then burning them is one of the fun remembrances of my teenage years here.