
Joseph Montuori
2/16/2019 1:52 PM
Inefficient or "rudimentary" cooking fires and stoves don't burn the wood or dung fuel completely. That makes a lot of smoke! The cook — usually a woman — and her children wind up inhaling those fumes, which obviously hurts their health. That incomplete combustion also creates CO and CO2, a greenhouse gas, and thus contributes to global warming.