First, this post is not about climate change. It is about air quality and the need for regulation to keep the air clean.
Second, I know that modern forest management goes back to managing the forest less because the monocultures and 'managed forests' were more likely to burn and the fires were bigger. But again, that's not what the post is about. It is about the need for regulation to keep our environment clean, not about climate change or other things.
If you don't think climate breakdown has contributed to the number and severity of wildfires in California and now the East coast you're a climate change denier, just admit it. And the post wasn't about that.
As I live in the country with the world's worst energy policy, this is one of my pet peeves. Here in Germany, it's not not getting better - it's getting worse. A coalition of dreamy and self-serving Greens, and egotistical conservatives has de-tabooed burning wood for heating. Thus, in some rural places, the air is so unbreathable they are no longer suitable for winter hikes, and I can't imagine how it is to live there.
You have no idea. Germany has gone down the train. Indeed the world's worst energy policy (and I say that as someone who lives in the country with the world's second worst energy policy). Not even the trains are running on time in Germany anymore...
I would encourage you to check out the Electricity Maps app. It shows current electric power consumption and production in many countries, alongside the relative CO2 data. Germany regularly produces 10x the CO2 that for instance France does, for the same unit of electricity. Only old-fashioned coal-burners such as Poland fare worse.
Meanwhile, the German taxpayer is paying extortionate rates to producers of "green" electricity, i.e. folks with solar collectors on their roof. Last September alone: €2.6 bn. Follow the money!
As soon as I've finished this cigar I'll write to my MP saying we need to improve the quality of the air by reducing the particles we inhale by a huge amount.
How foolish of Republicans to denigrate the EPA. Ignore Climate Change for a moment. Small particulates are a public health hazard. In England there is concern about small particulate pollution by cars in London; which the Mayor seeks to reduce by charging cars to enter London - congestion charges.
Wild fires in Australia and parts of America threaten crops and housing. They will only get worse as temperatures and dry conditions increase.
There are ways in which environmental regulation in the US is helping making air quality worse! Apparently there are cases where the Californian forestry services spend so many years in the process of getting environmental approvals to do a prescribed burn, that the forests they are trying to protect with the burns are instead destroyed in natural wildfires :-)
Excellent article. Sadly the EPA is worse than the FCA - and that tells you how rotten it is. It needs to be strengthened...but the mad orange and his bozo cabinet will no doubt weaken it even more and allow polluters to have an environmental frat party...so sad.
First, this post is not about climate change. It is about air quality and the need for regulation to keep the air clean.
Second, I know that modern forest management goes back to managing the forest less because the monocultures and 'managed forests' were more likely to burn and the fires were bigger. But again, that's not what the post is about. It is about the need for regulation to keep our environment clean, not about climate change or other things.
If you don't think climate breakdown has contributed to the number and severity of wildfires in California and now the East coast you're a climate change denier, just admit it. And the post wasn't about that.
As I live in the country with the world's worst energy policy, this is one of my pet peeves. Here in Germany, it's not not getting better - it's getting worse. A coalition of dreamy and self-serving Greens, and egotistical conservatives has de-tabooed burning wood for heating. Thus, in some rural places, the air is so unbreathable they are no longer suitable for winter hikes, and I can't imagine how it is to live there.
I'm shocked, I thought Germany was the gold standard...we're all doomed then.
You have no idea. Germany has gone down the train. Indeed the world's worst energy policy (and I say that as someone who lives in the country with the world's second worst energy policy). Not even the trains are running on time in Germany anymore...
I would encourage you to check out the Electricity Maps app. It shows current electric power consumption and production in many countries, alongside the relative CO2 data. Germany regularly produces 10x the CO2 that for instance France does, for the same unit of electricity. Only old-fashioned coal-burners such as Poland fare worse.
Meanwhile, the German taxpayer is paying extortionate rates to producers of "green" electricity, i.e. folks with solar collectors on their roof. Last September alone: €2.6 bn. Follow the money!
As soon as I've finished this cigar I'll write to my MP saying we need to improve the quality of the air by reducing the particles we inhale by a huge amount.
How foolish of Republicans to denigrate the EPA. Ignore Climate Change for a moment. Small particulates are a public health hazard. In England there is concern about small particulate pollution by cars in London; which the Mayor seeks to reduce by charging cars to enter London - congestion charges.
Wild fires in Australia and parts of America threaten crops and housing. They will only get worse as temperatures and dry conditions increase.
There are ways in which environmental regulation in the US is helping making air quality worse! Apparently there are cases where the Californian forestry services spend so many years in the process of getting environmental approvals to do a prescribed burn, that the forests they are trying to protect with the burns are instead destroyed in natural wildfires :-)
Excellent article. Sadly the EPA is worse than the FCA - and that tells you how rotten it is. It needs to be strengthened...but the mad orange and his bozo cabinet will no doubt weaken it even more and allow polluters to have an environmental frat party...so sad.