How tf are we going to manage the climate if I’m surrounded by people blowing god knows what through their chimney..
How tf are we going to manage the climate if I’m surrounded by people blowing god knows what through their chimney.. from belgium
How tf are we going to manage the climate if I’m surrounded by people blowing god knows what through their chimney..
How tf are we going to manage the climate if I’m surrounded by people blowing god knows what through their chimney.. from belgium
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Here I sit, taking the bike for small to medium travels, sorting my trash, not printing out emails.. and then suddenly, I had to close my windows because everything started smelling like burning plastic. Fml
/ rant
But seriously. Can’t we oblige people to put filters on their chimneys? /shower thoughts.
I opened the window and the sensor for PM2.5 did [this](https://imgur.com/a/c4Q5F8k)
We´re doomed.
Apparently the smoke from one wood stove can have an impact on an entire neighbourhood´s health in cold windless weather. 🙁
That’s a fucking disgrace, our street has those people too. We need an environment unit of sorts with drones for this kind of shit. I can’t count the amount of times walking around in my street and smelling burnt shit that is not wood.
Thanks to The cheap Energy in Belgium??? Who tf cares about climate? Of its more expensive for me, fuck it.
Thinking we can manage climate change is very naive. Raising taxes doesn’t help the climate at all. We are doomed.
Humanity is a fungus on a rock floating in space. The sad reality is, we will grow and consume until we cannot sustain ourselves anymore. Another organism will come after us.
To try and be ecologically neutral is a fantasy.
Not to say we should give up and dump our trash everywhere… but yeah it’s a sad reality
Well gotta keep warm somehow and if gas / electriciti is to expensive and you run out of wood …
tl;dr: pollution ≠ climate change
No one is going to mention how pollution and climate change are different things? What you see there is pollution. Solid microparticles in the air. Greenhouse gases are invisible gases. Of course, burning wood is much worse for air pollution especially if it doesn’t burn cleanly.
When it comes to CO2, wood stoves are not necessarily worse than fossil fuels. You may be surprised to learn scientists are divided on whether wood is better or worse for the climate than your gas boiler.
Why would wood be better? For a start wood doesn’t tend to lose methane in transit to get to your home, like natural gas does. Unburned methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas. Another argument is that trees which aren’t burned eventually decompose, releasing the same CO2 in a natural way, at least in a mature forest. Natural gas which isn’t burnt just stays under the ground. So burning gas introduces more new CO2 into the carbon cycle that wasn’t there before.
On the other hand, gas burns more efficiently. More calories in the gas are turned into useful heat compared to the calories in wood.
Habemus papam!
no worries we have ufos regularly fixing our ozon and regulate our earth temps. Climate issues are the least of our concerns. The biggest issues are too low of health medics and nurses and hospitals and too expensive energy bills and medical suplies and too low of an income. Be worried about those as these will be a deadly cocktail if you have a combo of these troubles.