Households should not have to 6 2of2 act as guardrails againstairpollutionWeb57DHYAFZZFLWj6May252026

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]relates with and poor weather conditions can exacerbate [music] speeding related accidents.

[00:00:05]Local traffic enforcement can reduce speeding incidents near homes. [music] It is protective of homeowners to have ordinances against drunk driving and speeding in residential areas.

[00:00:17]Their enforcement [music] does what it can to ensure that there's safety in residential areas against car crashes.

[00:00:24]Even the relatively rare car crashes directly [music] into residential homes.

[00:00:29]Shouldn't there be ordinances against the air of pollution of indoor residential wood [music] burning since the scientific and medical data collected over many decades show [music] that the PM2.5 emitted causes lung cancer, heart attacks, [music] asthma attacks, and cataracts and many other kinds of cancer, [music] also.

[00:00:51]Aside from human health, environmentalists should be interested in the fact that wood burning hastens climate change because [music] wood burning 2.8 times the PM2.5 and carbon dioxide CO2 as the fossil fuel coal [singing] burning wood [music] burning for home heating emits 450 times the PM2.5 [music] as the fossil fuel natural gas burning. And the argument that wood burning [music and singing] is carbon neutral has been debunked. Trees planted to replace cut down and burned trees take decades or centuries [music] to attain the stature of the cut down and burned trees [singing] and in that interval do not [music] perform photosynthesis and so do not sequester CO2 carbon at [music] the rate of the previously living tree. And trees never sequester PM2.5 particulates. Also, [music] a 2024 study showed that nearby living trees close their pores against PM2.5 [music] from wildfire wood burning PM [singing] 2.5, just as humans hold their breath in the presence of nearby wood [singing] burning the emissions of PM 2.5. [music] When a tree closes its pores, the living tree does not perform photosynthesis and does not [music] sequester carbon in the form of CO2.

[00:02:16]So, the fallback theory [music and singing] of a living tree sequestering the carbon of wood burning does not occur and we are left with the air [music] pollution of wood burning undimmed by photosynthesis and we are left with hastening climate [music] change by burning wood with no justification solution.

[00:02:36]Just do not burn wood to begin [music] with.

[00:02:40]Replace wood burning for home heating with heat pumps [music] that work down to 40° below zero and act as air conditioners in these global warming times.

[00:02:52]Look [music] to scientific and medical professionals as the deciders.