Franz Heymann wrote:
"ned" wrote in message
...

big snip

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.

....... just as it is wrong to mine any mineral? Coal? Oil?

--
ned