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MercTech -> RE: Thoughts on Bonfire night and the enviroment. (11/6/2007 10:13:19 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Aneirin
This evening as I was walking down to my local,it was unusually misty, but the air smelled acrid, a gunpowder smell. This was because many were celebrating Bonfire night a little early and the sky was shocked with the sound of fireworks.
Bonfire night traditionally celebrated in Great Britain on November the fifth in response to a certain Guy Fawkes who tried unsuccessfully to blow up the house of parliament. Can't remember if was in celebration of his intent or his capture.
Now the thought came about bonfire night, a question and perhaps a criticism.What with this world and all the stuff about the atmosphere and dwindling resources, why are there perhaps thousands of tons of wood burned on one night of the year, not to mention all the chemicals put into the atmosphere from fireworks.
Does it not seem two faced for all and sundry to persecute us for our waste, carbon footprint and Co2 emissions when on one night of the year and perhaps a few running up to it, it would seem a no holds barred, free for all; 'lets pollute the atmosphere' with wood smoke and gunpowder.And what about all that timber that is burned, surely it could be used elsewhere, is wood that easy a commodity to come by?
It does seem to me , the usual noise in the ears people who promote all this be nice to the earth, are strangely quiet, perhaps because they themselves are joining in the tradition and ignoring what they like the rest of the Uk are doing.
Just my thoughts
Don't buy into popspeak silliness. Burning wood does not contribute to global warming.
What contributes is taking the carbon that was bound up in the soil during the carboniferous age and putting it back into circulation. Increasing the carbon loading in the atmosphere makes it a better insulator and the temperature increases. This was a class dynamic balance equation I had in college back in 1975. No one took it seriously until the mean ocean temperature increased enough to be noticeable around 2000.
Bonfires just recirculate the carbon that is already available.
Just as silly is the concept of conserving paper to save the rain forest. Paper comes from farmed softwood trees. This is recycling guys. <grin> Rainforests are lost to clear cutting and burning to make pasture land for cattle.
Just a pre-coffee morning rant. <grin>
Stefan
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