My last partner encouraged me to become more environmentally conscious.
- She was a vegan, then although I was never ready to go that far into the naturalistic mindset, she did have a lasting effect on how I think about pollution in the world & humanity’s position with it.
Even global temperature change aside, the hordes of wrappers, empty bottles, & ciggarette buts that litter the edges of highways from coast to coast is enough reason to get romantic about putting an end to rampant human pollution. I also used to think highly of burning wood as a source of Wintertide heat, but the scientific article she sent me on the injure from excess carbon dioxide in the air & the effects on the natural environment made me beginning to change our mind on the practice a bit. It’s particularly taxing in our case—I was raised lower middle class in an ancient various living room farmhouse in rural MI. Even though most of us had propane gas gas furnaces to supplement, essentially all the people I knew up there burnt wood through a fireplace or woodstove as a primary source of heat in the Wintertide season. It makes it even harder to pass up when you live on acres of wooded land & can come across various dried out dead trees within a stones throw of each other, supplying you with various cords of wood from a such a tiny patch of land. It’s as taxing to dismiss the practice as it is to praise it, since a lot of the people who burn wood for heat have little money & need that resource to survive in fatally extreme conditions. I think our former partner never understand the socio-economic side of the practice & only ever focused on the environmental effects.
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