"Yes, this is bad for kids with asthma who have the misfortune of living in my neighborhood, but it's great for quesadillas! So you have to look at both sides."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2024/6355613
Simply running a gas burner generates about twice as much PM2.5 emissions as pan-frying a chicken breast on an induction stove. And of course gas generates pollution when you're boiling or steaming things, quickly reheating, or anything that doesn't involve burning / Malliard reactions / etc. Using gas means you are at the very least doubling the amount of pollution, and in most cases it's much worse than that.
On top of all that, ventilation does nothing for the environmental impact: https://concernedhealthny.org/2022/10/burning-fossil-fuel-in...
The cited study performed no measurement of gas cooking.
> On top of all that, ventilation does nothing for the environmental impact:
Gas used for cooking is not a meaningful contributor to our overall gas usage.
The only fix is proper ventilation. Which is unfortunate, because as you note many apartments and homes are not built for it... even in new construction.
Which might be a useful action point for regulatory intervention, rather than something which is much more performative than useful.
This comment and the other reply are just jaw-droppingly naive and ignorant. The indoor air quality while using a gas stove jumps to wildly unhealthy levels. But those pollutants do not just disappear! Much of it is deposited on indoor walls or residents' lungs, but much of it also leaks out of the building. Yes it is true that one teeny widdle stove won't hurt anyone except yourself, but that's why this is a tragedy of the commons that requires government regulation.
A simile to this is saying electric bikes are dangerous and should be banned because they are motorized transports, and as my neighbor died in a frontal collision between his car and 18 wheeler it's highly irresponsible to let a teenager ride on e-bikes.
Magnitude soup.