To Burn or To Breathe?
Voice of the People
Letter to the Editor
Online version
Chicago Tribune Newspaper
January 14, 2008
While burning wood is a choice, just as smoking cigarettes is a choice, it is destructive to human lungs, the environment and our food and water supply. Wood smoke's fine particulates do not break down, but accumulate in the environment and in our lungs--and they contain many cancer-causing toxins. Nevertheless, it is a choice.
Breathing is not a choice, but is an inalienable right. You may choose to burn wood, or to smoke, but you did not choose to breathe. Wood burners do not have the right to contaminate the lungs of others without their permission. Anything that interferes with others' right to breathe can and must be regulated.
Julie Mellum
President, Take Back the Air
Midwestern Director, Clean Air Revival
Minneapolis, Minn.
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