[Greenbuilding] No place for wood burning fireplaces in GreenBuilding

[Rushd45]

Doug wrote - 


> Fire is archtypal, and so much a part of who we are as human beings.  So
> much a part of our evolution.  I don't believe the key is to abandon wood
> fire burning.  The key is to employ our ingenuity to invent a way to do it
> responsibly. This forum is a place for those seeds to germinate.  I enjoy
> reading solutions and ideas much more than condemnations and doomspeak.
> 

I totally agree with you Doug. I love fire's and never said that we should abandon them. I don't have one for heating now, but the house I am planning will certainly have a fireplace. And when my pile of scrap wood gets too big I burn it in a 55 gal drum at night and love to watch the flames and feel the heat.

What I do find deplorable is that somebody dares to say that burning wood in an urban area is not 'good', but burning wood in a rural area is 'alright'. Why, because it affects less people? What an irresponsible rationale. 

So the judgment is if something affects many people and it is considered 'pollution', then it is not allowable? But if this 'pollution' only affects one person, then it is ok? To me that is another way of creating 2 classes of citizens, those that can have fires and those that can't.

That's my 2 logs worth....

Happy and Warm Holidays

Rush
Tucson AZ
www.ironandwood.org