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Originally Posted by R_F
Great example, since the most common vine issue in many states is poison ivy. Burn that and spread the happiness.
Freedom, apparently, is about making others suffer because someone is ignorant of the consequences of their actions, or just doesn't care enough.
The person who talked about compost was spot-on. Brush piles and piles of dead limbs will decompose over time. It is not necessary to ruin a person's lungs with burning.
People are ignorant and burn treated wood, putting arsenic into the air and hexavalent chromium. They burn wood with lead paint on it.
Another reason why wealthy people live longer is because they can live away from idiotic neighbors with their matchbooks.
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Originally Posted by R_F
Humans died young and suffered horribly.
For example, Vikings had worm infestations. Worms would come out of their faces, or even their eyes.
The good old days, before people learned more things... like just because it can be burned doesn't mean it should be burned.
As for natural, I wouldn't get too cozy with aconitum plants if I were you, or things like the natural volcano eruption that sealed the people of Pompeii in.
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Originally Posted by R_F
Tell your lungs to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Magical thinking will solve the problem. Who needs facts?
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Fortunately for most of us.... you don't get to decide when we can burn. In the county here, you are allowed to burn brush and debris as long as it is controlled and not during a burn ban. Some of us don't have the luxury of having a 20 ft tall and wide compost pile that we can wait years to dissolve. Some of us have to maintain our properties throughout the year and that requires occasional burning of limbs and such.
My house sits on a little over an acre in the country and is backed up to the woods. The back yard is covered in trees and without a constant effort to keep my fence line maintained my yard would be overgrown within a year. It was when I bought it, so I spent all of last summer cleaning it back up. I am still in that process this year.
What would you suggest I or my neighbors do with all of the debris that has to be cleaned up? We all understand that this is part of living in the country and none of us complain about the other burning (unless it's tires, or something other than debris).
As a side note, wealth has NOTHING to do with burning debris. Many of the wealthy people living in this county live within two miles of me. Do you know what we see at the edge of their properties? Burn piles. Sometimes they even have the local fire department come out and do a controlled burn on the piles when they get too large for them to comfortable have their staff burn.
I sense that you have a personal issue with it and that's fine. But your personal issue doesn't mean that everyone else has to take issue with it as well.
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