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<blockquote data-quote="slackjawedyokel" data-source="post: 7795858" data-attributes="member: 34254"><p>It’s not a sensible calculation to be attempting- like comparing apples to marmosets.</p><p></p><p>There are 3 places for carbon to be:</p><p>1) Underground (coal etc)</p><p>2) Earths surface (soil, living organisms)</p><p>3) In the atmosphere.</p><p></p><p>Climate change is mainly caused by 1<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="➡️" title="Right arrow :arrow_right:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/27a1.png" data-shortname=":arrow_right:" />3 and it’s not currently reversible (airlines planting trees to be green is a nonsense!)</p><p></p><p>Your heating your house with 2<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="➡️" title="Right arrow :arrow_right:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/27a1.png" data-shortname=":arrow_right:" />3 will also cause some warming effect, but it is fully reversible- I assume that you, like me, quite like trees and if you have land you will probably occasionally plant trees so over your lifetime you at least replace the trees that you’ve burned.</p><p>Even if you detest trees, the climate change effect of removing them is not as large as the carbon released from them because SOMETHING (grass, shrubs etc) will naturally grow in its place.</p><p></p><p>Woodburning stoves also cause local pollution (PM5s, PM10s etc), but unless you live in a built-up area with a lot of people burning wood, that’s unlikely to be a problem.</p><p></p><p>I suspect that folks that look down on woodburning stoves in rural areas:</p><p>1) don’t understand the basic mechanics of climate change.</p><p>2) are conflating climate change with rewilding etc. Such folks, I suspect, feel a collective guilt about the destruction of globally important rainforests but, impotent to do anything significant to stop it choose instead to try and reinstate forests here that were removed thousands of years ago (the irony being that that places greater strain on tropical areas for our food production, results in greater transport emissions and generally causes global warming…)</p><p></p><p>So crack in with your wood fire- much better than any alternative!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slackjawedyokel, post: 7795858, member: 34254"] It’s not a sensible calculation to be attempting- like comparing apples to marmosets. There are 3 places for carbon to be: 1) Underground (coal etc) 2) Earths surface (soil, living organisms) 3) In the atmosphere. Climate change is mainly caused by 1➡️3 and it’s not currently reversible (airlines planting trees to be green is a nonsense!) Your heating your house with 2➡️3 will also cause some warming effect, but it is fully reversible- I assume that you, like me, quite like trees and if you have land you will probably occasionally plant trees so over your lifetime you at least replace the trees that you’ve burned. Even if you detest trees, the climate change effect of removing them is not as large as the carbon released from them because SOMETHING (grass, shrubs etc) will naturally grow in its place. Woodburning stoves also cause local pollution (PM5s, PM10s etc), but unless you live in a built-up area with a lot of people burning wood, that’s unlikely to be a problem. I suspect that folks that look down on woodburning stoves in rural areas: 1) don’t understand the basic mechanics of climate change. 2) are conflating climate change with rewilding etc. Such folks, I suspect, feel a collective guilt about the destruction of globally important rainforests but, impotent to do anything significant to stop it choose instead to try and reinstate forests here that were removed thousands of years ago (the irony being that that places greater strain on tropical areas for our food production, results in greater transport emissions and generally causes global warming…) So crack in with your wood fire- much better than any alternative! [/QUOTE]
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