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I'd be interested to hear how this suggestion of yours might scale. I can think of many other things that affect the atmosphere a thousandfold compared to a few

I'd be interested to hear how this suggestion of yours might scale. I can think of many other things that affect the atmosphere a thousandfold compared to a few bonfires, likely including activities you might enjoy and I might not.

Toutouxc 3y ago
And quite a lot of them are getting regulated or have been regulated for decades, how does government regulation not scale? There are countries, times and places where you can’t light a bonfire anymore. There are things you are not allowed to burn at all. There are things you are not allowed to spill, things you aren’t allowed to transport, things you aren’t allowed to discard without permission. Honest question, what is the thing that affects the atmosphere that much and we can’t regulate it?
- defrost 3y ago
  > Honest question, what is the thing that affects the atmosphere that much and we can’t regulate it? CO2 sourced from fossil fuels that have been buried for tens of millions of years all being dragged up in the one century. As opposed to C02 from the surface vegetation cycle of absorption and release; by say, growing pine trees, making pallets, burning pallets, growing more trees.
  - Toutouxc 3y ago
    While I personally thing we should do much more than we’re currently doing, fossil fuels have been a hot topic for at least the last decade and the push towards renewables and possibly nuclear is either underway or being seriously discussed pretty much everywhere. So that’s clearly thing we’re technically able to regulate, despite the pushback from big oil. And you’re right that most of the pallets were made of wood grown for the purpose, and burning them is essentially carbon neutral, but the whole industry requires a steady input of fossil fuels for the machines and electricity for the services, which shifts the whole thing firmly into “waste of energy” territory again.

Toutouxc 3y ago

And quite a lot of them are getting regulated or have been regulated for decades, how does government regulation not scale? There are countries, times and places where you can’t light a bonfire anymore. There are things you are not allowed to burn at all. There are things you are not allowed to spill, things you aren’t allowed to transport, things you aren’t allowed to discard without permission. Honest question, what is the thing that affects the atmosphere that much and we can’t regulate it?

defrost 3y ago
> Honest question, what is the thing that affects the atmosphere that much and we can’t regulate it? CO2 sourced from fossil fuels that have been buried for tens of millions of years all being dragged up in the one century. As opposed to C02 from the surface vegetation cycle of absorption and release; by say, growing pine trees, making pallets, burning pallets, growing more trees.
- Toutouxc 3y ago
  While I personally thing we should do much more than we’re currently doing, fossil fuels have been a hot topic for at least the last decade and the push towards renewables and possibly nuclear is either underway or being seriously discussed pretty much everywhere. So that’s clearly thing we’re technically able to regulate, despite the pushback from big oil. And you’re right that most of the pallets were made of wood grown for the purpose, and burning them is essentially carbon neutral, but the whole industry requires a steady input of fossil fuels for the machines and electricity for the services, which shifts the whole thing firmly into “waste of energy” territory again.