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Turning bogs from wastelands to nature-scapes
- poploser 2y agoI read that headline as blogs and was really confused.
- pixl97 2y agoSame here. It was only the next time I visited the main page I realized it was bogs. That said with the algorithmic wasteland the internet has become it still made sense.
- theoreticalmal 2y agoProtecting peat bogs is absolutely critical, if for no other reason than peaty whisky is absolutely delicious
- Simon_ORourke 2y agoI dunno, I went sampling a few of them with an open mind, but the taste just seemed off to me.
- Loughla 2y agoPeaty whiskey is an absolutely acquired taste. They taste like iodine. Not a fan, myself. I like a nice rye if I'm drinking.
- adrianN 2y agoI wonder how much peaty whiskey can be produced sustainably. Peat moss grows extremely slowly.
- idunnoman1222 2y agoZero real details other than its hard with no pictures of a degraded versus natural vs restored bog. Or even potential targets. I’m very into re-wilding, but this was just two pages of whingeing about carbon dioxide.
- beedeebeedee 2y agoDegraded bog is land (it's been drained). Restored bog is wetlands with peat moss as the dominant plant. > but this was just two pages of whingeing about carbon dioxide. No, it mentioned carbon dioxide production when bogs are drained because that relates to a key property of bogs- they are anerobic environments. Carbon dioxide is not produced because there is insufficient oxygen dissolved in the water, so carbon doesn't oxidize (and things don't decompose quickly, like the bog people that have been found from hundreds of years ago).
- idunnoman1222 2y agoThere’s all sorts of native plants and animals that call peat bogs their home Part of rewilding them would be I would be I assume reintroducing species that were lost, but instead, it’s a lecture about the word anaerobic.
- southernplaces7 2y agoThe article explains that it's talking about turning degraded bogs into healthy bogs, but the title seems to imply that the fundamental bleak essence of a natural bog makes it a wasteland and that this is a problem to be fixed.