The real disaster for our climate

It seems that you don’t really want to speak to the aspects you raised.

They say some daft people need to hear something three times.

We have no disagreement that open burning is bad for the environment.

We have no disagreement that the seasonal open burning for a few weeks a year is bad for the environment.

I don’t think we disagree that particulate smoke from Petacalco’s year round burning of fossil fuels is even worse than a few weeks of seasonal open burning of non-fossil material.

Your assertion about the seasonal open burning of non-fossil material for a few weeks a year is,

It is a DISASTER for our climate.

I’m pointing out that it is the behaviour of the people we see in our mirrors that “is a DISASTER for our climate”.

Englishman John Haywood wrote in 1546, “Who is so deafe, or so blynde, as is hee, that wilfully will nother he[a]re nor see.”

Or an Irish version from Johnathan Swift, “There's none so blind as they that won't see.”