Farming pigs for meat is widely accepted while farming humans for meat is generally frowned on, I think that transfers straightforwardly across to this. (View Post)

CO2 issues and local air pollution issues are different things, @MattW is talking about the second one. On CO2, wood burning is really complicated: * A tree is carbon-neutral over its lifetime * But … (View Post)

Better than letting the trees get the upper hand though (View Post)

That's how I do it, burning wood keeps you warm and demonstrates the mastery of man over the tree. Also it's free [*]. * Except for the stove, the chimney, cleaning the chimney, cutting dow… (View Post)

In the last half a century we've been addressing it in a way that also makes us even richer. There's definitely more we could do out of generosity to speed up the process but the general di… (View Post)