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Bainbridge
If you're burning wood then you are releasing previously-sequestered carbon, and if you're getting your wood from a managed forest then you're also enabling more carbon sequestration.
i.e. you're not killing the planet. Which is just as well as it's the only way I can heat much of my house.
If you want something that looks like a real fire, and you want heat out of it, then get a gas one. We had a Gazco Hotbox insert in our house in London which was something like 60% efficient, which is as good as you can hope for with an open fire. You can get glazed in ones which are 80% efficient, but they just don't look right.
If you just want the look, and heat isn't important then bio-ethanol is what you need. There are companies who will sell old stoves retro-fitted for it. It's also the answer if you don't have a chimney.