Re: Germans are looking to firewood for energy as natural gas prices soar
The interesting is that people are not realizing "why" firewood is used right now as alternative and why it is a good thing. The real deal is that Germans realized long time ago Russians can't be trusted and Putin is the evil person in the world today, history always had those evil people, maybe Putin is not as bad as Hitler, but certainly the worst for the world today.
Unfortunately, Germany and the EU did not do anything after the Russian attack on Crimea, because if that had been the case, then today such stories would be completely pointless. Eight years have passed since then, and everything continued as if nothing had happened, and if we had reacted then as we do now, we might have prevented this bloody war that has been going on for months.
So instead of gas, oil, petrol whatever that you can get from Russia, they would use firewood, but not forever neither. Even though as you mentioned it is not as bad as people imagine, it is still not a forever thing, Europe is trying to build self-energy sustainable ways and when that happens, firewood will slowly fade out again.
Firewood will be used only by those who have the conditions for it, and you cannot use firewood if you live in an apartment building that does not have a chimney - unless you push the stove pipe through the window. If we look at the infographic, less than 50% of German households use gas for heating, the rest have some other alternatives. As I already stated in my previous post, wood can be used for heating, and even without a major impact on the environment if it is used and produced in a sustainable way.
