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What do you think of the experts who are now saying that poor air quality is caused by wood-burning stoves in rural areas?

First of all, totally disagree with the experts. Whether or not the air quality is good nowadays is not necessarily related to the burning of wood stoves in rural areas.

Before answering this question, I would like to ask the experts a few questions: Is it only now that the burning of wood stoves in rural areas has started? In the past, when there was no coal to burn and only firewood could be burned, the air quality should be bad, right? Why is the air quality in the countryside better than that in the cities when all the wood-burners are in the countryside?

I do not understand, China's five thousand years of history, in addition to the primitive society does not have firewood, the rest of the thousands of years, everyone is burning firewood cooking, cooking, the days are not so over? How come we have never heard of burning firewood to pollute the air before? Everyone has been inherited from generation to generation, how come it is all wrong at once?

In fact, there is no need to go that far back. Just 10, 20 or 30 years ago, when domestic liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and natural gas had not yet been fully rolled out and promoted, all the people of the country burned coal or firewood in every household, especially in the vast rural areas, and almost every household burned firewood. The question arises, was the air quality then worse than now? Is the air quality today better than it was then?

Pragmatically speaking, the concept of haze never appeared in my childhood memories. There were only morning mist, clouds, rainbows and a sky full of stars, so how could it be worse than the air quality nowadays?

The countryside, in particular, has long been seriously hollowed out. Most of the young and middle-aged people in the countryside have been working outside for a long time, leaving behind either old people or children in the villages, with very few people living in the villages. Quite a number of natural villages have even become completely ruined due to the fact that they have been uninhabited for a long time. Under such circumstances, even if every household in the countryside still burns firewood for cooking, the impact on air quality should be far less than that of the past few decades, so how come the burning of wood stoves in the countryside has become the main culprit when air quality is not good nowadays?

Now every time I hear experts say that rural firewood can not be burned, briquettes can not be used, pigs can not be raised, vegetables can not be poured organic manure, earthen stove can not be used ......, etc., always make people feel that nowadays, the country's air quality problems seem to be related to the countryside, farmers, but the question is, we have the countryside, farmers have so much ability, can the country's air is bad, the problem is that the countryside, farmers have so much ability. Can the air in the country be spoiled?

Objectively speaking, I simply do not believe that it is the rural areas and farmers who have problems; on the contrary, it may be our experts who have problems. Nowadays, when they put forward their views and talk about problems, they do so with a slap on the head, lacking in in-depth practical research and analysis.

In fact, experts nowadays go back three generations, how many people's ancestors were not rural and farmers? Therefore, it is recommended that the experts first go home and ask their own ancestors how the rural farmers in the past actually watered the land and planted vegetables, how to burn the fire and cook, how to raise pigs, how to build a house, and then come back to raise the real expert level of opinions, suggestions, lest every time they put forward, they are always being made fun of and even scolded.

Alternatively, it is better for the experts to do more research and talk less nonsense, and let the countryside and farmers have some peace of mind.

This is a 'bricklayer' who has been slapped upside the head with money from merchants.

This is typical of 'moving the scourge to the east of the river'. What really pollutes the environment is the chemical industry, the energy industry, the bamboo processing industry, pesticides, fertilizers, and household garbage, etc., and it has nothing to do with wood-burning stoves in the countryside.

People have been burning wood for cooking for tens of millions of years, ever since the drilling of flint for fire. Looking into all historical records, there has never been any claim that burning wood for cooking pollutes the environment.

Since there is no record in history and environmental pollution in reality is not caused by it, why do the 'bricklayers' have to say that burning wood for cooking pollutes the environment and causes bad air quality?

In fact, these 'bricklayers' have long since hooked up with certain interest groups. They have been sold by them and are acting as their spokesmen. It is money that has blinded them, so they speak nonsense with their eyes open.

As for who certain interest groups are, let's not get into that.

(Photos are all taken by the author - Yiming's hometown. Peach Blossom Garden. Yifeng, Jiangxi)






Thanks for the invitation!

Original thought, this may be some experts are afraid to go home to burn wood stove, think burning firewood cooking is a smoke and smoke things, and gas said the air quality is bad, is the countryside to burn wood stove and caused by out, and do not want to go home to burn firewood, is trying to outlaw the burning of firewood, and change to other aspects of the convenience of the gas and other tools and instead of it, which saves a lot of work, but this is just a joke and say! But this is just a joke. And about the air quality is not good, there are many aspects and caused by out, for example, industrial pollution, exhaust pollution, environmental health pollution and so on many factors, for example, environmental health pollution to the river caused by a lot of stinking river, and so on, and when the sunshine sunshine, and the formation of a kind of air pollution, and the degree of its pollution I believe that is more than the countryside to burn firewood. The degree of pollution is believed to be more powerful than the firewood burned in the countryside, so there are a few improper jokes and said out above. But I don't know if this is the opinion, and the following will be given to the bricklayers to continue the discussion!

How do you explain the fact that experts say that the air is bad now because of the burning of firewood in the countryside, when in fact the air in the countryside is generally better than that in the cities?

Hello, this is Don't Detain, first of all I'd like to dismiss this idea, let's briefly analyze it from several aspects.

I. Causes of poor air quality

I believe that everyone knows that the reasons for good and bad air quality are multiple and varied, and I'll briefly mention a few below

1. China's rapid economic development and the rapid growth of industrial output will inevitably lead to an increase in the number of factories and a large increase in the amount of waste discharged ;

2. The automobile consumption boom continues to heat up, China's automobile ownership is increasing rapidly, and automobile exhaust emissions are much ;

3. The emissions of individual vehicles are substandard and the exhaust fumes are seriously polluting;

4. Enterprises have poor awareness of environmental protection, and most factories do not treat exhaust gases ;

5. More than 70% of our electricity is generated by thermal power plants, and burning coal causes heavy air pollution;

6. A large number of trees have been cut down and the process of purifying the air has been hindered...

There are many other reasons, not to be listed here, so it is definitely not a single factor that leads to the deterioration of air quality.

II. Impact of rural wood burning on air quality

How much air pollution is caused by rural wood-burning stoves?

1. Although charcoal combustion will produce carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and other pollutants, but because it is not burned all day, basically only when cooking, so in the total ranking of sources of air pollution is relatively low, of course, that does not have an impact is impossible!

2. We know that the green area of the countryside compared to the city to be more, the natural ecological environment to be better, the above mentioned factories, automobiles, in the countryside are less, that is to say, rural firewood stove may be in a certain space within the scope of their own internal circulatory system to purify, there is no talk about what affects the air quality;

3. Since primitive societies, people have known how to chop wood for fires, and in some ways, the deterioration of the air in recent centuries has not been linked to the nature of the problem of rural woodstoves.

We can easily see from the above two points that poor air quality is by no means caused by the use of wood stoves in a single rural area.

III. How to improve

In the face of the worsening air quality in recent years, we have to address the air quality problem from two aspects for our own sake and for the sake of future generations.

1. Reduction of pollutant emissions

① take a walk instead of a car, less by private car, more by bus ② do not Luan cutting ③ participate in hacking voluntary tree-planting activities ④ actively publicize the importance of protecting the environment Jing ⑤ to the relevant departments to put forward reasonable suggestions ⑥ dare to fight against all kinds of damage to the ecological environment and so on.

2. Increase the absorption of pollutants

Above, I hope my answer will help you, thanks!

Thanks for the question. This is confusing concepts. By confusing concepts, I mean that in the process of thinking and debating, two concepts which do not have the same relationship are used as if they have the same relationship, thus violating the requirements of the logic of the law of unity and committing a logical error. In this case, the concept of wood-burning stoves refers to the cooking tools used in rural areas, which are also called wood-burning stoves. Air quality, on the other hand, refers to how good the air is. That is, the degree of air pollution. However, there are many factors that pollute the air. The main ones are harmful gases emitted by industry, exhaust fumes from cars, airplanes and ships, and dust particles from transportation. Therefore, the only air pollutants are harmful gases and fine particles, which do not enter the air from cooking utensils and wood-burning stoves. So, this is a confusion of concepts. My humble opinion, please forgive me.

See the smoke rising again, twilight covers the earth, want to ask gusts of smoke, where are you going ......Every time I hear Teresa Teng's song "Seeing Cooking Smoke Again", a different kind of warmth always rises in my heart. Cooking smoke is the most common scene in the countryside and exists in the memory of every rural child. Nowadays, the symbols that have represented the countryside for thousands of years have become the main culprits of air pollution through the mouths of some undesirable experts, which is really a crime that can't be justified.


What I am most proud of is the blue sky in my hometown, the blue without any impurities. Every time I go back to my hometown and look up at the blue sky, my mood is always indescribably happy, and I will record it in the form of a photo and then send it to the circle of friends to share the blue sky with my friends. The blue sky in my hometown can't be seen over the city, and the sky in the city always looks much darker. Burning firewood in the countryside didn't change the air quality in the old home, we can't say that burning firewood has no effect on the air quality, the effect is there, but it's very limited. Often after a night, the air in the countryside is back to its original state, the air is fresh in the morning and the sky remains blue in the afternoon.


The adage that cities make life better comes to mind. I admit that in many ways, the city is far better than the countryside, the weakness of the city is the air quality. Industrialization era, the urbanization process is accelerating, and in direct proportion, is the city's air quality is getting worse and worse, the premise of economic development, are at the expense of the environment. A large number of high energy-consuming enterprises gathered, automobile exhaust pollution, are the culprits of poor air quality in the city. Compared with the poisonous gases released by them, the cooking smoke produced by burning firewood in the countryside is nothing, and the argument that burning firewood in the countryside leads to poor air quality is totally untenable and not at all convincing.


Sometimes, really admire the imagination of some experts, the same eat grains and cereals, why are you better than others? Are you blind or heart blind, or by the lard to the conscience of the blind, the farmer's life is difficult enough, but also to carry a big black pot. I really want to pull this expert to the countryside to go to the village to show the public, feel the air quality in the countryside is good or bad.

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Where did the expert say that?

The questioner is the panel, right?

So many cars smoking? Where does all the sewage go? What about the smoke from chemical plants? If cars are banned from the roads, farmers will be able to ban fires for cooking. Who can stop it from raining, who can stop it from fogging, who can stop it, natural changes cannot satisfy everyone's will. With more care and understanding, let love fill the world.

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