Total adoption estimates vary widely between different future adoption prognostications, due to the fact that different sources place a different
value on biomass and waste for energy adoption.
Studies of the global carbon cycle often identify
biomass energy as being among the most important potential benefits associated with the forest industry
value chain...» They then go
on to worry that the use of paper fiber (
biomass) for fuel would cause ``... - market - distorting public policies that disproportionately favor the use of these materials for their fuel
value, - public policies that fail to recognize the direct and indirect economic and social benefits associated with using
biomass as a feed stock for forest products manufacturing,...».
What is gained if we insist
on exposing billions of people to indoor air pollution of uncertain or possibly deadly sorts and destroy the vegetation and other
biomass that is so necessary for maintaining the ecological and environmental
values of the regions where they live?