• PotatoesFall
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    “The habitats directive requires member states to protect their most precious natural habitats, but where does the Irish citizen fit in, and rights of a citizen to live and provide heat and food for their family?” Sean Canney, an Irish Independent politician and former minister of state, said on his website. “Surely human life is more precious than a bog.”

    The mental gymnastics here are worthy of the olympics

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      4 months ago

      And the shortsightedness of it.

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        surely the luxury of a handful of short lived human lives is more important than unrecoverable habitats?