This is heartbreaking 💔

Completely agree on the heat pumps!
I also strongly believe banning wood burning is a fast, easy “win” for both humans and #climate/environment. It’s a natural stepping stone to banning worse climate offenders and providing a line to catch bigger fish and build momentum. Who doesn’t want clean air?

While fossil fuels may be the main character energy in climate change, wood burning contributes significantly to black carbon, which worsens near-term warming and is devastating to public health, especially in urban cities where it is not necessary in residences nor businesses. It’s a fast win!

Forgot to add @fedupwithbadair.bsky.social

Appreciate your take. And amplification 🙏 @dsawsp.org and folks like @kaosdog.bsky.social and @woodsmokestinks.bsky.social strive to raise awareness to this equally important climate issue

I reckon that’s due to the large public face of the oil industry and their proponents, their political cheerleaders. The wood burning industry and their lobbyists are alive and well, and pushing the fallacy of wood burning as “clean,” and a great alternative fuel less harmful to earth and humans ☠️

Thanks Ellen 🙏 Wood burning in Canada is a tradition that needs a second look. A hard stare, really. No longer can we deny the serious harm it causes the environment, the public, the toxicity of particulate matter on shared outdoor air AND indoor air. The science behind the facts is clear and solid

And while @kaosdog.bsky.social points out the vast and real harms due to residential wood burning, the restaurant industry is just as bad and, so it seems, flies under the radar! Generally situated in urban areas, they go unregulated, under reported and agencies admit the harm health but do nothing

Sadly this is the same guy who’s touting our mayor, @mayorlindabuchanan.bsky.social and her “healthiest small city in the world” tagline when the reality is there are no regulations or bylaws for commercial wood and charcoal burning on the City’s main “Great Street” #NorthVan
#greenwashing #toxicair