It's happening; the peat-free train has left the station, and most of us are on board. But I still read comments online about stockpiling peat for personal use and ridiculing peat-free composts. This makes me sad, and I think it's high time we talked more about why peat is being banned rather than what we're going to do about it.
For centuries, we have blissfully drained the planet's resources without a second thought. The idea of a resource truly running out or humanity causing irreversible damage to the planet seemed to be just beyond the scope of our consciousness. But in recent decades,
