First off, I think ‘bog’ is a fun word. Second, bogs have multiple uses for us humans (some of which are very important to our survival!!!) and are not difficult to keep. Online magazine called Stuff amusingly refers to wetlands as “ the kidneys of the planet ’”. Third, they are in weak, weak numbers. Without bogs, life is a great deal harder, less healthy. G lobal warming would be even worse, which'll be so much fun, considering how, as Eric Holthaus put it in a recent Grist article, 2017 became the year when " humanity emitted the highest level of greenhouse gas emissions in history " . Without bogs, t here'd be less clean air and water for future generations, and there would be more irresponsibly rezoned areas that would flood more often and more easily. If we were to completely wipe out the few wetlands and bogs we have left, the human race would continue to frack and pipeline and cow fart our way to a lot more death and depl...
