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I didn't say fuel. I said carbon sequestration :) > Peatlands are the largest natural terrestrial carbon store. They store more carbon than all other vegetatio

by Swizec 2y ago

I didn't say fuel. I said carbon sequestration :) > Peatlands are the largest natural terrestrial carbon store. They store more carbon than all other vegetation types in the world combined. Damaged peatlands are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, responsible for almost 5% of global anthropogenic CO2 emissions. https://www.iucn.org/resources/issues-brief/peatlands-and-climate-change https://www.iucn.org/resources/issues-brief/peatlands-and-cl... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/21/headway/peat-carbon-climate-change.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/21/headway/peat-... Also burning the stuff negates the carbon capture part.

bryanlarsen 2y ago
A quarter inch of lime will sequester as much carbon per acre as your peatland. The numbers don't work for using plants for sequestration. 1-3% of the world's land is urbanized, the rest is either already green or doesn't support extensive plant life. We can increase the green land area number, but not substantially. We can release thousands of years worth of carbon sequestration in a peat bog in a few days by destroying the bogs. We don't have thousands of years to put it back. The economics don't work for industrial sequestration. The numbers don't work for green sequestration. Our only choice is to stop putting the carbon into the atmosphere in the first place.