Posted on 12/30/2016 5:25:04 PM PST by Twotone
In Jack Londons famous short story, To Build A Fire, a man freezes to death because he underestimates the cold in Americas far north and cannot build a proper fire. The unnamed mana chechaquo, what Alaska natives call newcomersis accompanied by a wolf-dog that knows the danger of the cold and is wholly indifferent to the fate of the man. This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold 107 degrees below freezing point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge.
If only the bureaucrats in Washington DC knew what the wolf-dog knew. But alas, now comes the federal government to tell the inhabitants of Alaskas interior that, really, they should not be building fires to keep themselves warm during the winter. The New York Times reports the Environmental Protection Agency could soon declare the Alaskan cities of Fairbanks and North Pole, which have a combined population of about 100,000, in serious noncompliance of the Clean Air Act early next year.
Like most people in Alaska, the residents of those frozen cities are burning wood to keep themselves warm this winter. Smoke from wood-burning stoves increases small-particle pollution, which settles in low-lying areas and can be breathed in. The EPA thinks this is a big problem. Eight years ago, the agency ruled that wide swaths of the most densely populated parts of the region were in non-attainment of federal air quality standards.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Ah, no, please. Send them to the Antarctic.
Ah, no, please. Send them to the Antarctic.
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