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Within the past century our society has only become more adept at accelerating entropy. We are converting anything that contains stored and potential energy for silly and destructive purposes.
Locally, the people’s elected and appointed representatives are not objecting to the 19th century idea of burning wood (waste?) to heat water to turn steam turbines to produce more electicity, but, of course, we have to disguise what it really is because that doesn’t sound “green”. Biomass sounds “green” and it is according to my 1975 Webster’s unabridged Dictionary. Biomass refers to “the total mass or amount of living organisms in a particuar area or volume”. So the idea of “biomass” as a natural state is flipped and the word co-opted – a specialty of corporate exploiters of the natural world. Sad thing is, much of the public is so easily suckered.
There is no waste in nature. Maintaining soil requires biological material, but the power mad want to incinerate biological material for heat and air pollution. In other words, they would remove carbon from the soil, where we need it; and put it in the air, where we don’t need it.
Congratulations on your site.
It reminds me of Project Censored.
For those who don’t know, ‘Project Censored’ lists top stories that go unreported “Project Censored” criticizes print and broadcast media outlets for overlooking important issues in favor of “junk food news.” The group blames political, economic, and legal pressure.
Hopefully, Headwaters will be the Great Lakes’s answer to censored journalism.
I would like to join with other people who want to prevent the beautiful north woods of WI,MN, and MI from being contaminated and destroyed by mining. I live in Milwaukee and would like to be part of a state wide effort.
So glad I found your site. Since moving from the city of Marquette to K.I. Sawyer in Gwinn, my family has been exposed to the unpleasant realities of unenforced Open and Burn Barrel Burning Ordinaces, and State Laws, specifically as they apply to “Nuisance” burning.
I am concerned about the toxins emitted by the materials being burned, and their potential to negatively impact my families health, as well as, the locally grown food movement.
I hope, in the future, you will be willing to explore the problem of Open and Burn Barrel Burning in rural Marquette County.