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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
I wonder how they burn wood in an igloo without melting it. (Do I need to state that I’m joking?)
All because of a belief in junk science by people of low IQ.
I live in northern Michigan, and it’s not winter until I can smell a nice wood stove aroma in my neighborhood.
I heat my modest digs with a Woodpro 1500. Just right for the space. I harvest and process my own dead standing tamarack, red fir and a little bit of jack pine.
So far, no noise from the EPA. If they pull that crap here in North Idaho, I wouldn’t care to speculate as to the nature of their continued existence.
If I was building a cabin in a rural area, I would check into putting in a rocket mass heater as a backup to the usual heating systems.
Ouch. They’d get blown away quite literally.
Jack London fan...
Checked out ground source heat pumps in the far north ?
I am working on this project...I won’t get into too much detail, but we are working with the State to address EPA’s concerns about the PM issues in North Pole. The entire thing is very political...
NP, burn leftists instead.
We have a 70’s model Fisher wood burning stove, it will handle 32 inch logs, there have times when I over do it and we have to open the doors in sub-freezing temps to cool the house down.
Freeze to death! Do it for the environment.
We need a Department of Citizen Protection Agency to keep all the other Federal Agencies from killing us!
Start burning spotted owls and whale blubber.
OK
Dear EPA,
The Erskine Fire was a wildfire that was burning in the Lake Isabella area of Kern County.[1] As of June 2016, it was the largest and most destructive wildfire of the 2016 California wildfire season. It was also the first fire of the year to have fatalities and is the 15th most destructive fire in state history.
Gatlinburg fire — currently documented.
I am sure that these fires made no smoke and no ‘offensive emissions’. You did not cite or regulate the ‘rapid oxidation’ process involved with these incidents.
So. Human survival is outlawed, while destruction of humans and their habitation is accepted?
Big Boy ping!
A libtard is someone who frets about endangered species, while overlooking the obvious fact that his own species would have gone extinct millions of years ago, had cavemen not burned wood.
One of my old taglines was that “red/blue Obama posters make great kindling”.
They still do.
Burn EPA employees as fuel instead?
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