[Age of Reason]

Carry_Okie, it is in places of growing population density that such disputes as this fireplace business are most likely to happen.

If people like Old Professor lived miles away from you and your fireplace, it would be much more difficult for him to interfere with your way of life.

And wood burning is just one of a growing number of such disputes.

Regardless of how you try to reason or ratonalize, you will lose your freedom as America's population grows from immigration and people live more and more on top of each other.

After all, the more people you crowd into a liferaft, the more each occupant must learn to compromise his freedom of action, lest it conflict with another occupant's freedom to enjoy life his way.

America has a limited amount of land--and an even more limited amount of good land.


And so the more America's population grows from immigration, the greater America's population density.

And with that growing population density, comes a change in attitudes.

This change is most pronounced where the population density increases the fastest, so in such places the change is easier to detect.

Good fences make good neighbors, but more space between neighbors makes even better neighbors.

[Carry_Okie]

Take your malthusain whizdumb elsewhere. Natural air isn't clean. You will get worse air quality problems if somebody isn't managing the vegetation. Best that it be done in the cleanest way that is economically feasable.