Do you agree or disagree with my perception of reality?

1. We all live within an atmosphere that consists of gases such as oxygen, carbon dioxide, etc. And particulate matter, etc.

2. Some of those gases & particles are generally healthy to inhale (In a certain %) - such as oxygen and carbon dioxide, and some are not healthy, such as (carcinogenic) carbon particles.

3. Burning wood produces toxic gases, greenhouse gases & carcinogenic carbon particles - that harm human health & the environment.

Good health-related guidance https://www.familiesforcleanair.org/myths/

An example of corporate greenwash https://www.bioenergy-news.com/news/burning-wood-slightly-more-climate-friendly-than-natural-gas-new-research-shows/

Think? Does the website have a conflict of interest? (bioenergy website?) - If they're selling a product - are their views balanced? (very often, quite the opposite). The best place to learn about the environmental effects of any product - is typically *not* the product manufacturers or a sales website (if they mention any effects at all)

"the demand for wood pellets has sparked an increase in logging in the American south and across Europe. It's also fueled illegal old-growth logging in ecologically sensitive areas, including the Carpathian Mountains of Romania and national parks in Slovakia." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/epa-declares-burning-wood-carbon-neutral-180968880/

Even if woodfuel was "Carbon neutral", which it's certainly not, sensible people would promote clean air renewable energy solutions. But, since when are industries eco-sensible? Maybe one day, though not yet.

Wood Smoke (pollution) References and Links - Particulate Pollution. https://woodsmokepollution.org/references.html

#CleanAir #Renewable #technology #Climate #health #Woodlands #timber #biodiversity

#wood #woodfuel #AirPollution #disease #deforestration #TreePlantations #Soil #SoilDegradation #extinction #GlobalWarming #ForestFires #ClimateChange

Do you agree or disagree with my perception of reality?

1. We all live within an atmosphere that consists of gases such as oxygen, carbon dioxide, etc. And particulate matter, etc.

2. Some of those gases & particles are generally healthy to inhale (In a certain %) - such as oxygen and carbon dioxide, and some are not healthy, such as (carcinogenic) carbon particles.

3. Burning wood produces toxic gases, greenhouse gases & carcinogenic carbon particles - that harm human health & the environment.

Good health-related guidance https://www.familiesforcleanair.org/myths/

An example of corporate greenwash https://www.bioenergy-news.com/news/burning-wood-slightly-more-climate-friendly-than-natural-gas-new-research-shows/

Think? Does the website have a conflict of interest? (bioenergy website?) - If they're selling a product - are their views balanced? (very often, quite the opposite). The best place to learn about the environmental effects of any product - is typical *not* the product manufacturers or a sales website (if they mention any effects at all)

"the demand for wood pellets has sparked an increase in logging in the American south and across Europe. It's also fueled illegal old-growth logging in ecologically sensitive areas, including the Carpathian Mountains of Romania and national parks in Slovakia." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/epa-declares-burning-wood-carbon-neutral-180968880/

Even if woodfuel was "Carbon neutral", which it's certainly not, sensible people would promote clean air renewable energy solutions. But, since when are industries eco-sensible? Maybe one day, though not yet.

Wood Smoke (pollution) References and Links - Particulate Pollution. https://woodsmokepollution.org/references.html

#CleanAir #Renewable #technology #Climate #health #Woodlands #timber #biodiversity

#wood #woodfuel #AirPollution #disease #deforestration #TreePlantations #Soil #SoilDegradation #extinction #GlobalWarming #ForestFires #ClimateChange

Are some governments disconnected from reality?

A day out where I live (Cumbria, England) will inform anyone that the culture is busy burning fossil fuels: diesel, petrol, kerosene & gas. Also, busy burning wood.

People are busy filling up their vehicles with fossil fuels. Diesel truck drivers are busy delivering diesel and petrol to the fuel stations.

Diesel truck drivers are busy delivering kerosene to people's homes & workplaces.

Diesel truck drivers are busy delivering coal to people's homes.

Diesel digger drivers are busy chopping down trees - other diesel truck drivers are busy delivering that wood to the sawmills.

Diesel truck drivers are busy delivering woodfuel to people's homes.

So, when England's government appears to want (again) to do something about climate heating by reducing Carbon Dioxide emissions - fundamentally, evidently, that is a con trick. That's how con tricks work - they offer something people want ("climate blah blah" virtue signaling), but that is a lie to cover up the truth.

Obviously, the UK's #conservative party government has had many years in #government. How much of those years have been spent #greenwashing the public & propping up the fuel industries - is all the years they have been in government. To all extents - the conservative party is the fuel industries.

The UK's conservative party is the cause of so much ecological degradation (inc. wildlife extinction). Their true slogan should be "we are only the greenwashing, ecologically unsustainable, & polluting business party".

But, that phrase is a little bit too wordy for the public. So instead, the UK's conservative party uses slogans such as "Greenest government ever!". And that slogan seems to be enough for all the busy people burning fuels, to vote for governments that support the busy destruction of their environments.

The cultural grave should have the words "its only business" scribed on the headstone.

What a crazy tragedy of the commons.

#UK #Cumbria #FossilFuels #WoodFuel #Deforestration #SpeciesExtinction #TragedyOfTheCommons #ClimateNonAction #climateheating

#Climate #xr #ClimateAction #JustStopOil #JustStopWoodFuel #CleanAir #Health #EcologicalRestoration