Yet, many of these same swamplands are also sequestering carbon at a prodigious rate. People dig up and burn the peat they once sequestered it all in, for fuel.

Yet, many of these same swamplands are also sequestering carbon at a prodigious rate. People dig up and burn the peat they once sequestered it all in, for fuel. So, we would probably be better off with more of even-though-methane-burping swamplands than less.