you’ve just ‘passed the buck’ of the dirty air/pollution a few miles away.

Here the thing, burning the fuel to directly heat a pan is far more efficient than burning the gas for electricity to use for cooking, as you need to heat a boiler, spin a turbine, generate electric, send to your home … That’s inefficient.

This is not true - industrial turbines burn more efficiently and form less pollutants than small burners which don't have the same quality control.