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The writing style of the linked article reeks of AI prose… even if I agree with the point the author makes, and there appear to be linked sources, the article makes me retch a bit.
People can chop wood to heat their home if they want, and is great to see people come together volunteering to help cut and store firewood, I don’t think the existence of woodbanks are a bad thing. It’s just when people are forced to rely on the work of volunteers when government could have easily stepped in to provide affordable alternatives. Instead people who don’t have the ability to source their own firewood depend fully on the whims of the heating fuel market or on charity.
I don’t think the article is arguing that the wood banks should just go away, but that they shouldn’t be necessary, and their expansion is a symptom of the failing system.
It’s the “orphan-crushing machine” again. People band together to do something good that needs to be done because of systemic failures, and most reporting on it focuses on the good done instead of talking about fixing the systemic failures. This article is just the response to that, a different way of looking at the same event.