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Pollutionwatch: how bad are bonfires for the environment?:
A team of French scientists has been investigating air pollution from bonfires. They used a specifically constructed fire chamber: a big room that could easily accommodate one or two whole houses, added instrumentation in the extract ducts, spread a bed of sand on the floor and set about burning leaves and hedge trimmings.
Bonfires are a frequent source of complaints to UK local councils, and in some places these complaints quadrupled during the 2020 lockdown. But little is known about the air pollution they cause. This means they are often assumed to produce pollution that is similar to home fires and wood stoves.
Any gardener (and their neighbours) will know the smell of smoke from burning green waste. Unsurprisingly, for each kilogram burned, garden waste on bonfires produced up to 30 times more particle pollution (smoke) than burning logs in a stove, but smoke from the wood stove contained up to 12 times more cancer-causing polyaromatic hydrocarbons. The pollution from bonfires more closely resembled wildfire smoke, which is being increasingly linked to health problems.
Autumn is coming and so is the annual garden-tidy before winter. The simple message is: do not burn your garden waste; compost it instead or shred it to make a mulch.
Journal Reference:
Camille Noblet, Jean-Luc Besombes, Marie Lemireb, et al. Emission factors and chemical characterization of particulate emissions from garden green waste burning Science of The Total Environment (DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149367)
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 18 2021, @04:10PM (8 children)
If you read the text uncritically you come away with some hand-wringing about pollution, but when you engage in a dismantling of the author's privileged position and reinterpret the text in the social environment you can see where this leads; it is a clear strike against the alternative religious cultures by a catholic majority's chosen puppets. Instead of analysis directed at the energy budgets and polluting effects of the practices of roman colonialism, maintained over thousands of years of subjugated people's practices, they direct a knife right at the still-beating heart of the underground, counter-cultural revolutionary resistance latent in society today.
They should check their hegemonic privilege, decolonise their thinking and embrace the lived experiences of the underclasses that they seek to oppress instead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 18 2021, @05:09PM
🤔 wtf I want a pagan bonfire ritual now
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday September 18 2021, @05:47PM (5 children)
You're trying to troll (and not doing very well), but you accidentally hit a kernel of truth in there: the disturbing parallels between the Roman Empire and modern-day neoliberal government/business practices, which are basically the same thing. The uniting factor is an unthinking, compulsive drive to control others, full stop, regardless of the social, political, financial, or environmental consequences.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 18 2021, @06:24PM
whatevs - can we burn it all down now???
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 18 2021, @11:45PM (3 children)
oh really. you don't think it has anything to do with the republican tax cuts for the 1% and income inequality?
i guess we're talking about 2 different roman empires.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 19 2021, @02:51AM (2 children)
Neolliberalism is not left-wing and not liberal. Look it up.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 19 2021, @03:11AM (1 child)
oh good, because here i assumed that "neo" and "liberalism" actually meant what they normally do
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 19 2021, @04:03AM
Would heaven politics were so simple!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 18 2021, @10:28PM
Q: Why are elites so against tobacco? A: It's the last vestige of native culture.