Ashley Laing’s Reviews > Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis > Status Update

"This too is part of the human psyche- a burning sense of irrevocable loss yoked to a fatalistic acceptance of "progress" and " improvement" and the hubristic idea that "now"- the time in which we live- is superior to all previous times."