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For Peat’s Sake

For Peat’s Sake

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Bogs exist in the liminal space between water and land, haunted by will-o’-the-wisps and home to carnivorous plants, equally ready to suck in unsuspecting wanderers or disgorge eerily preserved ancient artifacts—or bodies. Long relegated to the purview of horror films or dismissed as wastelands, bogs have been sites of historical resistance and refuge in the past while quietly resisting the greatest threat to humanity in the present: climate change. Bogs sequester a third of the world's soil carbon while only covering a measly three percent of the Earth’s surface, but their reach is under even more threat due to peat harvesting and palm oil plantations. The ecologist Merritt Turetsky has spent decades studying the peaty places of the world, untangling sphagnum moss and dissecting cores from the boreal forests of Canada to the jungles of Borneo. Her new book, Bogland, is both a love song to the lands of peat and a plea for preservation. “Neither alive nor dead, suspended between present and past, peat is one of the strongest and most resilient resources on our planet,” she writes. “And yet, it is easily destroyed by human hands.”Merritt Turetsky is a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she runs the very boggy Ecosystem Analysis LabGo beyond the episode:Merritt Turetsky’s Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects LifeCheck out the boggy beauty of Tierra del FuegoPeruse the Faddan More Psalter text (discovered in a bog)Behold the Hjortspring Boat (also discovered in a bog)And read about nine noteworthy bog bodiesGet mired in fictional boglands:Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, obviously, including its finest adaptationGraham Swift’s WaterlandJordy Rosenberg’s Confessions of the FoxPhillip Pullman’s La Belle SauvageKasi Lemon’s Eve’s BayouPaul Maslanski’s Sugar HillRob Reiner’s The Princess BrideWerner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of GodJack Arnold’s Creature from the Black LagoonTune in every other week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.Subscribe: iTunes/Apple • Amazon • Google • Acast • PandoraHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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