Particulates from wood smoke account for the majority of air pollution in Portland each year. It’s bad all year round but worst in the winter when the same people who won’t wear masks to protect others from covid love to crank up the old-timey, cozy machine and of course that includes the ‘roaring fire’ of yesteryear, when our ancestors had no clue that breathing the resultant chemicals and minute shard-like particulates was like suicide for your lungs. These geniuses don’t believe in science, though, just in their “Rights” to do whatever mischief floats their boats. But I reserve my strongest contempt for the liberals and science-believers who refuse to confront and shame these people who must have their fireplaces (they come in gas-powered, you know, doofus), their firepits, their barbeques (and perhaps their book-burnings). It’s all part of the same ego-driven death wish that prevents them from realizing that 2022 is a very different place from 1822. The same people who would attack you for smoking a cigarette within a quarter mile of their delicate systems gladly breathe the filthy, harmful air in Portland caused by wood smoke and don’t make a single step toward cleaning it up. When exactly are you going to educate yourself and act like a humane, decent person? Oh, I forgot: it’s your right NOT to.

4 replies on “Wood Smoke Kills – Multnomah County finally agrees”

  2. In the 1980’s, I lived communally in a 1908 Portland “Sears” house, a 2-story, 5-bedroom. The fireplace never heated the entire house very well, nor did the wood stove insert, nor the central fuel oil heater in the basement. We insulated the attic and walls, installed double pane windows and replaced the smelly oil furnace with a 90% efficiency natural gas heater. These investments made the house comfortably warm and reduced the heat bill in winter. Maybe the next step for this old house is replacing the gas heater with a heat pump and solar panels on the roof of the detached garage. One thing I know for certain, cars and trucks generate more air pollution than a fireplace or natural gas heaters.

  3. choked-down

    airtight woodstoves

    can kick out the Partic-

    Ulates like nobody’s Business

    not quite

    ‘Burnin’ Coal’

    but Stinky-poo it’ll

    leave ya Breathless

  4. Some people heat their homes by wood stove as they have no other alternative and are poor. Bitching and moaning per usual, you’re not out there changing the way these poor people can afford to heat their homes, and some even use stoves like that for cooking. You write the same old histrionic post about it here in I/A every year, same self righteous air about you, same stupid post. You’re one of those people I’m extremely glad, that SOMETHING makes them miserable.

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