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Verkaufs-Hit Blumenerde aus #Hochmoor-Torf aus dem Supermarkt.
Kommt zunehmend in die Kritik, daher hat sich hier die Firma #COMPO sicherheitshalber schonmal ein Greenwashing-Label zugelegt.
So sei der #Torf zB auf "verantwortungsvolle Weise produziert".
Was ist da dran?
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Kommt zunehmend in die Kritik, daher hat sich hier die Firma #COMPO sicherheitshalber schonmal ein Greenwashing-Label zugelegt.
So sei der #Torf zB auf "verantwortungsvolle Weise produziert".
Was ist da dran?
👇🧵
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Das Label #RPP "responsibly produced #peat" gibt an "strenge Kriterien bzgl. Gebietsauswahl, Torfgewinnung und Folgenutzung der Abbauflächen" zu erfüllen.
Kurze Recherche auf der (inhaltlich ziemlich dünnen) Website des Labels:
responsiblyproducedpeat.org
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Kurze Recherche auf der (inhaltlich ziemlich dünnen) Website des Labels:
responsiblyproducedpeat.org
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1. "Leaving natural peatlands with high conservation value untouched"
👉Es würden also keine naturnahen Moore abgebaut. Zumind. in der EU stehen die restlichen naturnahen Hochmoore unter Naturschutz.
Das ist also ein Bullshit-Argument, denn da abbauen dürften sie eh nicht..
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👉Es würden also keine naturnahen Moore abgebaut. Zumind. in der EU stehen die restlichen naturnahen Hochmoore unter Naturschutz.
Das ist also ein Bullshit-Argument, denn da abbauen dürften sie eh nicht..
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1/Friday we made it! We saw briefly/incompletely how #pollen #beetles preserved in #peat can shed light on long term #ecological change. There are other 'proxies' + the #peatland #archaeological record, esp rich in 🇮🇪, a remarkable 'archive' of past people/environments/climate
2/#Peat is remarkable for so many reasons, long regarded as of little 'use', now known to be an #ecosystem 'superstar' (TBD further tomorrow!) key for preservation of #Palaeoenvironmental + #Archaeological record. Photo: woody fen peat in auger @Calum_Sweeney_ @EcomuseumsLive
3/In this sense, we can think of #Peatlands as representing an intersection between how we understand long term #ecological change, #ClimateChange, human activity/impact + data key for #Conservation #Rehabilitation #Restoration of #Ecosystems Image 1: From Book Image 2!
1/ An evening thread! Yesterday #Pollen next its beetles #Palaeoentomology - preserved in #peat fragments of bugs (wing cases, head capsules etc) are difficult to ID but provide key evidence of #Palaeoenvironments - #Prehistoric #woodland, #Biodiversity changes+extinctions!
2/Dr Eileen Reilly (photo 1, r) passed away too young. Her #Palaeoentomological work was groundbreaking. Demonstrated presence of beetles in #prehistory now extinct/rare in 🇮🇪 many associated with wood/trees (Saproxylic), 'Urwald relict' group (see table!)
3/E.g: photos 1+2 #Archaeological excavations, Lisheen Bog, Co.Tipp. Samples from Bronze Age oak wood plank trackway, contained remains of Prostomis mandibularis+other bugs. Primary #woodland present in this period despite clearance/farming.
1. Good morning 👋
Tuesdays 🧵Given that most of #Mayo has #Peat soil, it should come as no surprise that the water flowing through the Burrishoole catchment is full of #Carbon, giving the rivers and lakes their typical brown, dark colour
📸credit G. Rogan & J. Cooney
Tuesdays 🧵Given that most of #Mayo has #Peat soil, it should come as no surprise that the water flowing through the Burrishoole catchment is full of #Carbon, giving the rivers and lakes their typical brown, dark colour
📸credit G. Rogan & J. Cooney
2. There’s nothing particularly special about Lough Feeagh. It’s a fairly typical, deep, #Humic lake (45m deep), similar to many lakes that you find in all the mountainous regions along the west coast. It’s a pretty nice place to work
3. The impacts of #ClimateChange & #LandUse that we measure in Feeagh, therefore, are likely to be replicated in lakes in any of Ireland’s blanket bog catchments (to varying degrees). We'll look at #LandUse change 1st, and how it impacts rivers and downstream aquatic ecosystems
1/Thinking of #trees #peat #carbon and #nature and #fires. When are Victorians (without hysterics @theage ) to be made fully aware of the State #auslaws over fines in State Parks for picking up a rock, walking off track and so on. @DanielAndrewsMP/2
2/As it is now there are hundreds of shooting licensed people walking off track. Hundreds of thousands of feral deer, xrabbits,x pigs (latter two a food, anti #poverty source that cannot be culled by shooters) already damaging #native wildlife.Protecting #Indigenous locations/3
3/ @DanielAndrewsMP is key but to lock up (by fines) large areas is #segregation and discrimination. To lock up but then ok if you pay — is a cynical misuse of power. It would be good to hear from #Indigenous Victoria as we already know the value of the birthing trees was/4
Extraordinary scenes in Seanad on deeply flawed Horticultural #Peat Bill. On top of exemption from #planning , the bill stayed enforcement action & disregarded unlawful extraction & more putting us clearly in breach of EU law - key parts of their #PeatBill NOT highlighted🤔& 👇
- #Peatbill didn't even bother to provide properly for allocation of all the assessments required by EU law. Talk about giving #falsehope to those impacted by the successive failures! U simply can't stick ur head in the bog when it comes to EU law - at least u shouldn't but 😱👇
What @reginadoherty described as "a foolish legal action" tinyurl.com/2p8k59xr added insult to injury to our National Courts who rightly upheld the challenge . The #PeatBill added further insult and disregard to the EU Court of Justice's rulings.
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 09/18/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/dai…
Otherworldly ‘time crystal’ made inside Google quantum computer could change physics forever
livescience.com/google-invents…
#QuantumComputer #TimeCrystals #google #research #SecondLawOfThermodynamics
livescience.com/google-invents…
#QuantumComputer #TimeCrystals #google #research #SecondLawOfThermodynamics
THREAD: A few more thoughts about this v welcome announcement from @DefraGovUK
I know many of you are thinking "Why the need for a consultation?" and I COMPLETELY understand the frustration, of course!
But, it is probably necessary to ensure a ban is legally watertight
I know many of you are thinking "Why the need for a consultation?" and I COMPLETELY understand the frustration, of course!
But, it is probably necessary to ensure a ban is legally watertight
It is now ESSENTIAL that @DefraGovUK launches that consultation AS SOON AS POSSIBLE so that we get peat sales banned before the UK hosts the UN climate talks #COP26 in #Glasgow in November
No later than that, please @DefraGovUK
Sooner if at all possible
No later than that, please @DefraGovUK
Sooner if at all possible
The peat companies and retailers will no doubt complain that they "need more time" to adjust their business model.
Well, they've had 30 YEARS, and if they are not ready yet they only have themselves to blame:
Well, they've had 30 YEARS, and if they are not ready yet they only have themselves to blame:
THREAD. Once upon a time .... see those long pale strips w/ dark outlines leading from the fore- into the middle-ground of the photo? Hold onto your hats: #RomanoBritish #peat diggings close to then coast line & now in the Cambs #fens, dug before the mid-3rdC AD.
2. A major flood from the sea in the mid-3rdC filled these #RomanoBritish peat diggings w/ the light-coloured silt you can see in the photo. Now the peat wetlands they were part of have disappeared except for their dark outlines. They’re top L of the central blue block on the map
The map is from eaareports.org.uk/publication/re…, one of the iconic Fenland Survey volumes all available for free download.
1/ Extreme civilisation, late-stage capitalism, whatever you want to call it: this thread👇🏼 is about THE. LEAST. SUSTAINABLE. THING. EVER! And it’s Irish...
peatbed.com
@creedcnw @OriginGreen @Bordbia @GeorgeMonbiot @IUCNpeat @KOSullivanIT @tessakhan
peatbed.com
@creedcnw @OriginGreen @Bordbia @GeorgeMonbiot @IUCNpeat @KOSullivanIT @tessakhan
2/ Yes, it’s Irish peat used as bedding for methane-belching cows & other farm animals!
Why? It’s cheaper than straw because straw prices are👆🏼because, well, climate-induced drought...
@KOSullivanIT @ellamcsweeney @RTENewsPaulC @GeorgeMonbiot @paulbmelia @GeorgeLeeRTE
Why? It’s cheaper than straw because straw prices are👆🏼because, well, climate-induced drought...
@KOSullivanIT @ellamcsweeney @RTENewsPaulC @GeorgeMonbiot @paulbmelia @GeorgeLeeRTE
3/ It costs the Earth 🌏 but Irish peat really is the “lap of luxury” for cows! 🐄
@creedcnw @OriginGreen @Bordbia
@creedcnw @OriginGreen @Bordbia
