Give me the chestnuts, hold the open fire

Your answer implies that it's possible to get smarter about how we engage our environment. Maybe the wood smoke issue at hand is an example of the same thing.

And the picture is of a Russian steel mill. Circa 1991.

 

I thought it was Hamilton, Ontario circa 1965

 

Nope, garden spot of Mother Russia - the V.I. Lenin steel works in Magnitogorsk.

 

Well, Russia 1991 was about the same as the US circa 1950.

Funny how the eco-whackos of today were (and still are) the commie lovers when the iron curtain was still up. And they still want to take us to the old USSR system.

 

And any pretense at logic goes out the window and into the Siberian permafrost of tony's frontal lobe.

 

Why is it that the truth always hurts you most, Zeke?

 

Interesting non sequitur, o_t. But I wonder where that leaves China on the Old_Tony timeline for rational free market growth?

Oh, wait.

 

Reconcile these two statements, please. Were the hippie-commie-crunchies right about industrial pollution, or do they now want to take us back to what they were protesting then? You cannot even make ideological sense from one post to the next.

And to steal a line, if you ever stumbled on any truth, you'd be out in the yard playing with it.

 

Or, as my father used to say, "If you had a brain, you'd eat it".

 

And Russia and Eastern Europe continue to get a pass from the environmental community for the shit they poured into the air and water, while the U.S., the most regulated country in the world when it comes to industry, gets all the shit.

 

Which has just exactly what to do with wood smoke pollution in the Bay Area? You and o_t seem to be wandering far, far afield here tonight.

 

Excuse me, but who first posted the picture of Russian smoke stacks?