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In some countries, peat is considered biomass. It’s probably worse than coal in terms of per unit damage, but generally it’s burned in far lower quantities.

• blueflow 2y ago
  Greenwashing. Peat is an early stage of coal.
  • wiredfool 2y ago
    Yeah, I've had these discussions with some scientists who are _really_ into peat, and got down a rabbit hole looking at the various EU states and how they deal with their peatlands from a policy point of view.