Indoor air pollution from New Zealand’s 523,000 wood burners was estimated to account for 446 hospital admissions for heart and lung problems, and 101 early deaths annually, in a country with a population of just over 5 million people. Breathing fumes from gas cooking indoors created more than 1,000 hospital admissions, 208 early deaths and more than 3,000 new cases of childhood asthma each year.
I think something similar was mentioned in America and then people started complaining about taking away the gas cookers and started buying more?
The prevalence of gas burning stoves in the U.S is caused by a long-running propaganda campaign from the gas industry. If you convince someone that cooking on a gas stove is inherently better than using alternatives, then you will make sure that they install gas lines into their building, making it likely that they will use that gas for heating, which is where the majority of gas consumption will happen.
Once the health effects of burning stuff inside your home on the regular were getting studied and action was close to being taken, more money was given to the right wing politicians, who are never reluctant to jump on any culture war topic, meaning that using gas stoves was now a virtue signal for right wingers.
Yeah. Curious if this will cause a pro gas culture war in NZ too.
Not as much as pro wood burner would be.
Weirdly enough, a modern wood burner is a lot better than a gas stove. I guess because the fumes are immediately vented outside?