To the Smell of Burning Leaves...

It isn't thrilling to wake up to the smell of burning leaves with the smoke so think that you wish you could drop to your knees and breath through their shirt... I couldn't help but wonder why in the world the Albion department of Parks and Recreation insisted on burning all the leaves down at Victory park. It smells bad, and those leaves could have decomposed and fed the nutrient base for the soil in the park. I didn't get it. Admittedly, in order to let them decompose, you would likely have to transport them somewhere, but none-the-less, how much CO2 was sent into the atmosphere? 

The entire College campus looked like it was midday Los Angeles... Maybe something should be done about burning leaves....