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by dlcarrier 473 days ago
Burning wood has no net CO2 emissions. You're just undoing what the tree did when it grew.
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There is an issue of the time scales involved, after all if you take it far enough oil and gas are just undoing what geological epochs did, and will do again.

Personally though no I don't think a wood burning stove is an issue, other than the raised cancer risk for the owner/operator, and that isn't my problem.

exactly my point