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You're in a thread about climate change. How is burning wood contributing to climate change? It's a renewable energy source on the scale of ~20 years, in contrast to digging up million year old fossil fuels. Many people around the world use local fallen trees on their property as their energy source, rather than decompose into the same carbon cycle. Would you rather them import fossil fuel natural gas right now? Areas have to do controlled burns of wood anyway to manage forest fires. You only want to prevent the cases where masses of forest is razed with no plan to regrow.

I feel like this is a case where urbanites with no idea how rural life works attempt to legislate their naivety onto others for the worse, like the rural firefighter responsibly managing their property and the forests of their state.




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