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1. Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 13:24:22 JST Richard Stallman

   [1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/23/clean-cookstove-carbon-offsets-overstate-climate-benefit-by-1000-percent

   Burning wood indoors for cooking is a bad idea because the wood smoke harms people's health. Projects to hand out wood-burning stoves in poor countries are supported by "carbon offsets" which are fraudulent in the usual way. I've heard of projects to give people inexpensive solar-powered cookers. They don't cause any pollution; the users don't even need to buy …

   • þernia (pernia@cum.salon)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 14:08:11 JST þernia

     in reply to

     • mangeurdenuage
     • Hoss Delgado
     @Hoss @rms @mangeurdenuage imagine using a fucking cooker IN THE SUN.
     
     dinner is bad for the environment anyways, amaright
     New Janny in Town likes this.
   • mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 14:08:12 JST mangeurdenuage

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     @rms
     These days regulations ask people to have Catalytic Combustor filters on the exhaust of any wood burner.
     
     > I've heard of projects to give people inexpensive solar-powered cookers. They don't cause any pollution; the users don't even need to buy
     They don't cause any pollution after production, but it causes a lot for it's production.
     
     It is, in my opinion, much more sustainable to go for wood as long as catalytic combustor filters are installed and that the wood comes from a source that is, first planted back, and second planted back from seeds and not clone cuttings.
     
     Of course with the current amount of population it's impossible to have everyone to be on wood, thus there's a need of various source of heating, be it from electricity, to methane, to wood.
   • Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 14:08:12 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • mangeurdenuage
     Bet those solar powered cookers are total dogshit. Easy for guys like RMS to say they're just as good when they've never used one and likely have never even used a wood burning stove.