Though it’s claimed that 14 per cent of the world’s energy is renewable, this is misleading. The majority of this — three quarters — comes from burning what is euphemistically called ‘biomass” — most of it what you and I call wood.
No joke - 22.5% of Germany's widely touted "sustainable" energy is from wood combustion. The only thing the enviros can do to avoid admitting that this is not progress is to drop the largely fictitious "carbon footprint" standard altogether, which they should from a scientific point of view but they won't from a political one. Nevertheless, wood isn't the only usable biomass. Great parts of Africa do just fine cooking and heating with open dung fires. I don't imagine Watson, Attenborough, Gore, DiCaprio, or any of that gang including Prince Chuckie himself, going to that length to demonstrate their environmental correctitude. That's for us, not them. Nevertheless, the first nut to open a gastro-pub in San Francisco that cooks that way and gushes about its authenticity will probably be stepping in pure profit.
Perhaps a new book called “Rules for Rabble!”.