Beautiful day - perfect for burning Britain's uplands. This is Middle Moss (i.e. deep peat?) on Moscar Moor, owned by David Manners, Duke of Rutland, right now. Air pollution is intense across the Hope Valley. All in a National Park. @MoorlandMonitor @GeorgeMonbiot @wildmoorsuk The Peak District is burning day after day so a few dozen people can shoot red grouse for sport. The Ladybower Reservoir is at an all-time low for mid-October, but three landowners are wrecking our water catchment. Plus, lots of carbon up in smoke. It can't go on. #BanTheBurn

I step outside to go for a run & at once I can smell smoke. I run & my part of west Sheffield stinks. I know at once what's happening, and from Stephen Hill I can see it: National Park moorland is being burnt. Air pollution for thousands so a few dozen can shoot grouse. If the air is this bad in Crosspool, about four miles away, what's it like for the residents of Stannington? One month ago, the owner and gamekeepers of Broomhead Moor did this to them.

Land use map from @food_strategy. An area *bigger than Britain* (if you combine overseas land use to feed the UK) is taken up by beef and lamb production. Now imagine what we could achieve - for the climate, for wildlife, for our wellbeing - if we all stopped eating it. Looking at maps like this, in their world of scarcity and drought and suffering, future generations will look at what we did with our planet in wonder and rage.

Fascinating search of @DefraGovUK's Magic Map land use database shows great swathes of the Dark Peak that are currently managed for driven grouse shooting can *no longer legally be burned* because they are carbon-storing blanket bog. Question: what will the owners do now? Everything in beige is designated blanket bog. Until the law changed this week, large swathes of it were subjected regularly to swaling, i.e. controlled (sometimes getting out of control) burns to stimulate new heather to feed grouse to maximise shooting pleasure for the 'guns'.