Posted on 12/30/2016 5:25:04 PM PST by Twotone
In Jack London’s famous short story, “To Build A Fire,” a man freezes to death because he underestimates the cold in America’s far north and cannot build a proper fire. The unnamed man—a chechaquo, what Alaska natives call newcomers—is 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 Alaska’s 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.
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Burn coal.
Long term goal is Agenda 21.
second one should get rid of every clinton executive order still around.
I live on land that had been farmed by a mule team half a century ago but was too steep a slope for a tractor.
Nature took over. Locusts and cherries grew up like weeds.
Nature is still taking over, replacing the locusts and cherries with poplars and oaks.
Haven't had to cut down one living tree...pleny of forced out first-growth for my stove.
On a Christmas Day we were mushing our way over the Dawson trail.
Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail.
If our eyes we'd close, then the lashes froze till sometimes we couldn't see;
It wasn't much fun, but the only one to whimper was Sam McGee.
So the author Cremated Sam McGee in the boiler of a derelict named the Alice May.
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
Do you really think the dweebs will drag their sorry bureaucratic butts out of their nice toasty 85 degree offices to check?
I have two older woodstoves that we maintain ourselves. We live near a swamp, errrrr “wetland” and harvest all the dead felled trees, split and stack. Saves on the propane bill.
My work is mainly agricultural.
Clearing woods and drainage ditches.
Farmers no likey when trees clog up the drainage and they flood a bunch of acreage of planted crops on $10,000/ acre land.
But OF COURSE! Think of their name - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)!!! What are they protecting the environment from? Human beings!!! What is the perfect solution? Ban human beings! Problem solved, the last EPA employee will press the button to mulch his remains to restore the perfect Earth. Gaia will be so happy!
Left unconsidered is the willingness of the rest of humanity to follow suit. Strange how these Utopians fail to consider that I have the means to tell these ever-more controlling fabulists that I have no desire to help or join their cause! 2nd Amendment!
Keep clearing those ditches otherwise water will accumulate and the EPA will pronounce it a “protected wetland.” Happens here all the time in the People’s Republic Of New York State” by the DEC. (Dept of Environmental Conservation) an offshoot of the EPA. They drive around in, SUVs, that’s right with a 1 800 SNITCH number to report “environmental crimes” bdly emblazoned on their gas guzzlers.
Thought about those barracks motor pools that
were coal heated back when I was in.
Wonder when they were phased out.
****F((( the EPA. Seriously. F((( them****
Agreed!
I have no furnace. Only woodburner stove.
It’s a comfy 71 in the old farmhouse right now.
“And don’t even think of burning coal, gas or oil.”
What about cow patties I hear they burn really good.
Better yet, move the EPA to the Arctic circle.
20 January can’t get here fast enough.
This same EPA banned over-the-counter asthma inhalers, which proved they were/are pure mean and chickenshit, not protectors of the environment.
“We should send the EPA to Desolation Point and let them live without anything to burn to keep warm.”
Relocate the EPA to Adak Island.
Yes, the single finger salute that lets them know that they’re number one.
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