Well you can blame your hero Maggie for the fact that the coal you burn is Polish. There’s plenty of good ol’ UK coal under your feet. As for peat, peat is not a renewable resource. There’s more than enough peat for you and thousands of householders to cut turf for their personal domestic use. But that ain’t how it is. I can go to a garage forecourt round here and buy large packs of commercially-exploited Irish peat in compressed briquettes very cheaply. But I don’t live in Ireland, do I. I can go to the garden centre and buy huge sacks of peat-based compost, ruthlessly stripped from moorland and lowland deposits. And that’s nothing compared to the exploitation by the horticultural industry behind closed doors that we hardly see. Thing is, strip peat from moorland deposits where the climate is always wet and you expose the land to erosion and surface water flooding. Peat is a huge water-holding sponge that is hydrologically crucial. That’s why you may be prevented from cutting it. Don’t blame Poland. Blame the capitalist system which says exploit to the hilt today and sod tomorrow.