Confessions of a pagan farmer

I wasn't trying to imply that everyone should or even could heat with wood. We use it because we can, as you say. One of the biggest problems is overpopulation and our population distribution. Our wood heat would be much more efficient (per capita) if we had as many people living here as the house could fit - say 2 more comfortably, or 3-5 more in a severe housing crises or farm labor necessity. While we americians each insist on having our own bedroom and multiple grand common spaces in each household we will continue to use up all of our resources much faster than mother nature can replenish them. Other contributers are mass-transit fobia, desire for suburbia, desire for non-local foods, and so forth. I don't claim to be perfect, far from it in fact, but these are things I do think about.