How about facts for a change?

How many new housing units are built in the State of NY per year?

I'll call it 20K.

https://furmancenter.org/news/press-release/new-york-built-1...

Let's go with the moonshot proposal of 50K per year (good luck):

https://www.bdcnetwork.com/new-york-city-advances-plan-build...

How many housing units in NY State?

Approximately 8 million.

https://www.infoplease.com/us/census/new-york/housing-statis...

How many housing units in the entire nation?

Approximately 140 million.

What percentage of CO2 does the US contribute to the planet?

Approximately 14%.

Look for the pie-chart about half-way down.

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/each-countrys-share-co2-emi...

First conclusion:

If the US evaporated from the planet tomorrow,
CO2 production would only decrease by 14%.

Global CO2 would continue to increase at the same rate.

The net effect on climate would be zero.

Second conclusion:

The proposal is to force 0.6% of NY State housing
units to use electric stoves.

The proposal is to force 0.04% of US housing units
to use electric stoves.

Electric stoves are NOT zero-emission devices.
Less, yes, not zero.

Even assuming zero emissions, the net effect on US CO2
contribution will effectively be zero.

Third conclusion:

This proposal is empty and ridiculous.

It has no foundation in evidence of any kind.

It does, however, serve to garner votes from those
who believe in this stuff blindly and follow politicians
like they actually know and care about any of this stuff.

Wait!

Wait a minute! You are only considering one year?
How about 50 years?

Right. So, the US continues to contribute CO2 to the world at a rate likely exceeding 14% of the total contribution and, somehow we are going to save the plante by not cooking using gas for half an hour per day?

What do you want to bet that the act of constructing 50K new housing units per year will generate far more CO2 than those 50K gas stoves will generate for their entire useful lifetimes?

Seriously! Is anyone even interested in science and evidence any more?

But, but, health?

Seriously? With eight billion people around the world, millions must be dropping dead every day because they cook for half an hour per day using fire. The horror!

This thing has become a blind belief system, not a subject people can discuss based on facts-based hypothesis that allow anyone to reproduce the results and confirm the conclusions.

A couple of potential definitions of the term:

Believing something in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

or...

A strong belief in a supernatural power in support of a conclusion.

or...

Magic.

Believing that forcing 0.6% of the stoves in NY State per year will have an effect on climate change is a belief so ridiculous that, in a rational society, it would be summarily laughed off the stage.

Yet, this isn't a rational society. It is a tribalized society based on blind beliefs of all kinds promoted through social media and mercilessly used by politicians to get the unthinking masses to vote for them.

Blind belief is a powerful tool.

With help, it seems to be a LOT easier to get the masses to believe in absolute nonsense than to actually work hard and deliver tangible results that actually benefit society. This is particularly true when the politician can take advantage of complicit actors in society who also stand to benefit from the nonsense they want to sell or the power they aim to acquire.

People, companies, are making money and gaining power with this belief system hand-over-fist. It is amazing to watch this happen as an objective observer. It is frustrating to yell out loud "The emperor has no clothes" only to be met with blind belief and ignorance of facts, as if it were a virtue.

This proposal is like claiming that banning birthday candles and fireworks will save the planet. It's ridiculous, idiotic, demonstrably false and anyone who can add 1 + 1 and get 2 should see it as such.

Hold on. Here come the attacks...