"ned" wrote in message
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Franz Heymann wrote:
"ned" wrote in message
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David W.E. Roberts wrote:
"anita" wrote in message
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On a lot of garden programs they all say they don't like or use
peat
why is this?
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anita

Because the peat takes a long time to create (many centuries if
not
millenia) and it is being excavated to extinction

....... Strictly speaking, it was extinct before it was excavated.
;-)

.........by commercial users.
This destroys a major natural habitat.

There is no denying that.
However, ..... in some specific areas where they are trying to
re-introduce wetlands (creating one environment at the expense of
another), it is necessary to skim off the higher exposed layers of
peat and so a certain amount is still being commercially
'harvested'
under strict controls and licences. It's an ecological juggling
act.

In which the extractors hold all the trump cards, if one may be said
to do an ecological juggle with cards.

....."under strict controls and licences"

Yes. The sops to Cerberus.
Bugger the controls and licences. If you can destroy in one year what
nature took millennia to produce, there is something quite seriously wrong.

Franz