Paul Goble
Staunton, May 9 – Thirty years ago, Russian officials launched a campaign to drain swamplands around the country in order to prevent drownings and to open the way to the harvesting of peat; but as the Province portal says, “they tried to do what was bt but in the end things turned out just as they always do.”
The number of lives saved by the draining of swamps was microscopically small, and the destruction of these areas did not result in any major increase in the use of peat as a fuel (province.ru/society/4495414-opasno-bez-tryasiny-v-rossii-nachali-vosstanavlivat-bolota/).
Instead, the destruction of the swamps released dangerous gases into the atmosphere, sparked more and larger forest fires than Russia had ever seen before, and contributed to global warming not only inside the RussianP Federation but everywhere else as well.
Last year, officials decided to “rewet” the swamplands beginning first in Tver and then in other hard-hit federal subjects (iz.ru/2092251/sergei-gurianov/opasno-bez-triasiny-zachem-v-rossii-vosstanavlivaiut-bolota), a program that is now spreading to other regions as well.
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