Comments on: West Seattle weekend scene: Burning Christmas trees at Alki Beach

By: Guy Olson

Guy Olson — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:14:31 +0000

In reply to nonni. The trees were already cut down.

By: nonni

nonni — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 21:55:16 +0000

Are the ships idling their engines all day and spewing exhaust, or are they being worshipped?

I don't understand the whole perpetuation of pagan tree sacrifice. Plant one instead, and add a carbon offset???

By: Guy Olson

Guy Olson — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 20:30:39 +0000

In reply to Guy Olson. Also, many that were in attendance have participated in two beach clean up events at Constellation Park. Thanks!

By: Guy Olson

Guy Olson — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 20:24:26 +0000

With the amount of fossil fuels emitted to transport the trees to the dump, fuels burned during processing the trees, and fuels burned to transport the final product or compost, we figured it was cleaner to just burn the trees. It united the community and fun was had by all.

By: Huck

Huck — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 15:41:08 +0000

That’s just great. Now I’m having trouble breathing. Coughing all the time. This is terrible.

By: Richard Kelly

Richard Kelly — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 01:29:32 +0000

Seriously? Air pollution? A year full of forest fires, and all the earth rape going on, and someone has to bitch about a night of Christmas tree burning?

A single gas station emits more pollutants in a year... Candles in churches? Horrible ...lets complain!

by the way: the SFD and SPD was excellent and professional. After observing and ascertaining the event was safe enough and the citizen participation was within acceptable norms, they left.

By: Alki Resident

Alki Resident — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 01:25:37 +0000

In reply to wscommuter.

And around the corner are ships that sit idol all day long and no mention of that

By: Dtdt

Dtdt — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 01:01:38 +0000

In reply to anonyme. Sure hope you bus walk bike and carpool everywhere and not drive a single occupancy carbon emitting vehicle!

By: wscommuter

wscommuter — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 00:01:53 +0000

Oh god. Really? Burning a few Christmas trees is unacceptable because of the air pollution? This event has to be discussed in terms of carbon impacts?

Balance, people. Take a deep breath (irony fully intended) and chill. It will all be okay.

By: Guy Olson

Guy Olson — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 23:31:51 +0000

In reply to anonyme. A lot of the folks that were there either rode bicycles or walked to the event in order to offset our carbon imprint.

By: Swede.

Swede. — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 23:26:01 +0000

In reply to anonyme. Was gonna point out that too... Darn those pesky facts!

By: anonyme

anonyme — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 23:00:32 +0000

Totally harmless, unless you happen to live on a planet with an atmosphere, and belong to a species that has lungs and breathes air.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 20:45:17 +0000

Seems to me that the appropriate SFD response would be to have an engine on hand in case there is a problem. But it’s apparently a harmless tradition.

By: Gina

Gina — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 20:03:00 +0000

Epiphany eve, a tradition in many places.

By: Trickycoolj

Trickycoolj — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 17:59:01 +0000

Funny my family in Germany says this is a tradition in their town! And it’s so established food trucks and beer stands are there for the festivities!