You burn doors and furniture because it's hard to cut down a tree--harder than you'd think, especially if you're an urban-dweller who doesn't have experience at felling trees and doesn't have a long-bar chain saw with gas to run it.
Then you have to cut it up, drag each length home, and split it. A man can hold only a few logs in his arms, and is vulnerable while he's trying to transport those. While he's carrying each individual log home, the other vultures descend and make off with the rest of the tree.
If bad things happen here, I expect the local woodlands to be promptly denuded by idiots who don't know you can't burn green wood. In hard times people go into the nearby nature preservers to cut down small Christmas trees, so imagine what they'll do when they're actually cold and their kids are hungry.
When the Great Depression hit, most of the people in the US lived on farms and knew how to take care of themselves. Their houses weren't built out of Styrofoam, baling twine, Elmer's glue, and spit, as our are today. They had some idea of how to hunt, and there just weren't as many people competing for the same resources. This is going to be just terrible, folks.
“2. What about wood? Your home city is surrounded by woods, why did you burn doors and furniture?
You burn doors and furniture because it’s hard to cut down a tree—harder than you’d think, especially if you’re an urban-dweller who doesn’t have experience at felling trees and doesn’t have a long-bar chain saw with gas to run it.
Then you have to cut it up, drag each length home, and split it. A man can hold only a few logs in his arms, and is vulnerable while he’s trying to transport those. While he’s carrying each individual log home, the other vultures descend and make off with the rest of the tree.”
Don’t you have to let the freshly cut wood dry too, before you can burn it? (And that takes weeks, if not months.)