{"id":317200,"date":"2025-10-23T05:16:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=317200"},"modified":"2025-10-25T05:34:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T05:34:44","slug":"theyre-coming-for-your-wood-burning-stove-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=317200","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019re Coming for Your Wood-Burning Stove. Again."},"content":{"rendered":"

Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian Oct 22, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The weather is getting colder, and that means getting back to anti-wood-burning propaganda.<\/p>\n

Did you know a wood burner can kill you? They pollute more than cars and cause cancer, \u201csimilar to cigarette smoke,\u201d<\/a> and so on.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Vine is asking if it\u2019s time to ban them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t new \u2013 for want of a better word \u2013 \u201cinformation\u201d. We covered this last Christmas<\/a>. Then over the summer, it was folded in with a barrage of \u201cindoor air quality\u201d fear-mongering, only to re-emerge now that the days are getting shorter again.<\/p>\n

Sort of like reverse-hibernation.<\/p>\n

A trendy wood burning stove almost killed me\u2026they need to be banned before they do anymore damage<\/p>\n

\u2026screams the Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I like the word \u201ctrendy\u201d \u2014 they keep using it \u2014 it\u2019s so shamelessly manipulative, painting the humble stove as some pretentious luxury accessory, rather than the basic means of heating your home for literal millennia.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the crux of the story is that this lady \u2013 Lizzie \u2013 had a severe asthma attack, and she \u201cbelieves\u201d<\/em> it was linked to wood-burning stoves.<\/p>\n

So they should be banned. Or something.<\/p>\n

Then they quote a doctor:<\/p>\n

\u2018This is why we want the government to launch a public awareness campaign on the health impacts and sources of pollution to empower the public to make cleaner choices and protect lung health, and other people like Lizzie.\u2019<\/p>\n

Then come the graphs. It\u2019s all very predictable.<\/p>\n

The Telegraph<\/a>, more refined and less hysterical than the Daily Mail (which admittedly isn\u2019t saying much) goes with\u2026<\/p>\n

Wood burners are bad for you. Here\u2019s why you didn\u2019t notice.<\/p>\n

Detailing how new research has shown that wood burners are really terrible for everyone who uses them, but we just never noticed before.<\/p>\n

Why<\/em> didn\u2019t we notice?<\/p>\n

Oh, because the people who use them are \u201cmostly\u201d otherwise healthy and wealthy so the data was disguised by demographics.<\/p>\n

Now, you might think that \u201cresearch\u201d which concludes \u201cwood burning might make you sick, but being poor, eating badly or smoking are worse\u201d<\/em> is a shoe-in for the Well Duh! Prize at the annual Waste of Time Awards, but you\u2019re wrong. It\u2019s very serious.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here\u2019s their version of the doctor quote:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be good to see increased awareness on the impact of wood burners, with clearer information and guidance from the Government on the health impact, as well as increased regulation around domestic wood-burning.\u201d<\/p>\n

No graphs this time, which is nice. But notice, like the Daily Mail article, the repeated association of wood burning with the upper class. It\u2019s a luxury, not a right. That\u2019s the message. The \u201cexpert\u201d in the Telegraph even says, \u201cprimarily the reason for having a wood burner is the aesthetic of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a common sentiment, always presented without evidence.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s something I still find hilarious about the press \u2014 perhaps the British press in particular. These are identical stories, just in a house style. It\u2019s like AI image filters, where you upload a photo of yourself and ask, \u201cShow me this image as if it were painted by Van Gogh.\u201d Or Rembrandt. Or Picasso.<\/p>\n

\u201cTell me burning wood causes cancer in the style of the Guardian\u201d<\/em>. Or the Mirror. Or The Sun.<\/p>\n

The aesthetic changes, the message does not.<\/p>\n

And, of course, it\u2019s not just the UK. When is it ever?<\/p>\n

The devolved Scottish Parliament has already banned wood burners in newly built homes<\/a>, with some local councils banning the installation of wood-burners<\/a> in their council houses.<\/p>\n

The anti-stove agenda clearly summers in Australia, because back in July, ABC were reporting<\/a> on \u201cthe silent killer\u201d of wood smoke, and how experts were calling for bans.<\/p>\n

In New Zealand, government-commissioned research is blaming not just wood-burning stoves, but open fires, gas heaters and gas ovens for thousands of deaths per year.<\/a><\/p>\n

In Canada, British Columbia is enforcing a registry<\/a> for those who want to burn solid fuel domestically.<\/p>\n

It comes back around to \u201cindoor air quality\u201d, the trendy new public health concern I wrote about back in July:<\/p>\n

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The MSM want you afraid of your \u201cindoor air quality\u201d. Here\u2019s why.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n