There's nothing wrong with heating with electricity if you live in an area where heat pumps are an option and your electricity source isn't primarily coal or gas. I heat my house in BC with a heat pump and it costs me less in electricity than natural gas would while producing a tiny fraction of the emissions. And I get super efficient air conditioning when I need it in the summer.
In moderate to warm heating-dominated climates that need air conditioning in the summer, heat pumps are a no brainer as long as the electricity is fairly cleanly generated and not prohibitively expensive.
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