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ned wrote:

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

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ned [/b]

Not quite, a peat bog is a carbon sink that actively collects the
carbon from the environment and locks it up, then over millions of
years it sinks down further in to the ground and is burried. Eventually
it will become coal.

pedant

Er, no it won't. I can't remember exactly what it becomes, but it isn't
coal. Lignite, IIRC.

/pedant

Digging up peat does something that digging up fosil fuels like coal
and oil doesn't, it is destroying a natural environment that cannot be
replaced. Adding carbon to the atmosphere through burning coal, gas and
oil is one thing, but destrying an irreplaceble resource that is
helping to reduce this carbon is very different. Without it, the
environment can't 'landfill' excess carbon.

You have this completely arse-about-face. Peat will form again (assuming
the weather conditions remain favourable), but coal and oil, once
removed, will not regenerate in that position.

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