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Is the ban on gardeners using peat really so unfair? | Lucy Siegle

A vocal minority in my local gardening society think preventing gardeners using peat is outrageous. Is it? Email lucy.siegle@observer.co.uk with your ethical dilemma Peat bogs are prodigiously talented. Globally they store twice the carbon locked in forests. It's estimated that the atmospheric carbon stored in peat bogs over the past 10,000 years has reduced global temperatures by 1.5-2C ...

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