[pier25]

I live in Mexico and there are still millions here that need to use wood to cook or heat water.

[epistasis]

Wood is not a fossil fuel, so as long as forests are not being destroyed overall for the fuel, the are carbon neutral.

However, people's health would probably be increased if we could provide people electric heat.

[pier25]

The point is that energy is not cheap for everyone. Apple products are luxury items for the vast majority of humanity.

Also, like you said, cooking and heating with wood is terrible for the lungs and this has become much more very evident with COVID.

[Karrot_Kream]

With wood things get a bit unclear for me. Using something like district heating which uses wood as a source to generate hot water/steam and pipe that to houses is a way to stay carbon neutral while keeping emissions away from people to avoid impacting their health. But this assumes that heating needs can be sustainably forested. Right now there's also all sorts of shenanigans where wood is imported from the US as biomass in Europe as a sustainable source, but the carbon costs from shipping wood across the ocean are not considered.