I’ve been trying to decipher a puzzle that was posed by numerous websites stating that burning logs on a wood burning stove is actually good for the environment, because it is carbon neutral. This is widely acknowledged across the Web, but something about it seemed wrong to me. Further investigation found a site which pretty much dismissed that statement as being wrong. This led me to the conclusion that basically burning ‘deadwood’ would be a pretty environmentally sound activity, but if we all did it there wouldn’t be enough trees to go around. Simply put, nothing is environmentally sound because there are too many people on the planet. Instead of addressing climate change, and any other eco issue that is out there, I think we’re skirting around the real issue, which is we need to look at ways of reducing population growth because no matter how eco-friendly we all become there are just too many of us for the world to support. Up until we do this, at best we’re just treading water.