Essay by Eric Worrall
As UK energy prices and home heating grow beyond the reach of the average person, the green rich are campaigning to have their poorer neighbors banned from keeping warm by burning wood.
No logging warning is a precisely defined ‘harmful’ effect: ‘Like 750 HGV discharge!’
ENVIRONMENT campaigners are calling on Britons to “protect your neighbours” and stop using wood-burning stoves because using them is like 750 diesel trucks pumping exhaust into your living room – including yours. those that are marketed as “environmentally friendly”.
Via ROSIE JEMPSON
11:00, Sun, 06/26/2022 | UPDATE: 12:38, Sun, June 26, 2022
Only stoves that meet eco-design standards can be legally sold from this year in the UK and EU, but experts say PM2.5 pollution – caused by burning wood – has yet to drop.
According to the Forum of the Environmental Committee of the International Respiratory Society, PM2.5 is particularly harmful to health because it can pass through the lungs into the bloodstream and then be carried throughout the body and lodge in the organs. mandarin.
Statistics also show that there are at least 40,000 premature deaths each year from wood burning in Europe.
The source of the original HGV figure was a report by the European Environment Agency, which looked at PM2.5 emissions from wood-burning stoves compared to those produced by HGV.
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“Air pollution has dropped significantly since 2010, with nitrous oxide levels down 44 per cent and PM2.5 down 18 per cent since 2010,” a Defra spokesperson said.
In response to the statement, Ms Hartshorn said that the Government agency “always said so” but the results from the “National Audit Office (NAO) report showed that nitrous oxide, from automobiles, has decreased but pollution has decreased. due to PM2.5, including from wood-burning stoves, not”.
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Great Britain had a Powerful clean air impact can be used to prevent wood burningbut enforcement is less common.
I used to burn a lot of wood while living in the UK, we didn’t have gas and electricity was unreasonably expensive. The wood was delivered by someone recommended by a neighbor of mine. Somehow, I always forget to ask for a receipt, I am grateful for affordable home heating.
UK government admits unacceptably high fuel poverty ratea situation will only get worse when recent price increase. The UK also suffered a significant number of excess winter deaths, 17,280 excess winter deaths in 2018-19. 2019-2020 was a year of horror, 28,300and 2020-21 is even worse, at 63,000 won.
Obviously Covid is a big problem after 2019 and it is difficult to separate poor indoor air quality from other factors in previous years. But everyone who has experienced cold weather knows that extreme cold causes more problems for people’s health than a little smoke. There’s a reason Our ancestors used fire to keep warm, at least for the past few million years.
If greens are developed, and the eventual more affordable form of home heating is restricted, I suspect that more people will die from the cold than are currently dying from wood smoke pollution.
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