Recreational Wood Burning Is Major Pollution

Burning wood in a fireplace recreationally produces the worst particulate pollution one can impose on neighbors, and the nostalgia and coziness associated with wood fires is 'dangerous bullshit'—as is the broader notion that going 'back to the land' and abandoning industrial economies would tread more lightly on the planet, since 7.7 billion people burning wood pellets would denude the planet and cause ecological collapse.