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Re:Swiss narrowly reject tax hike to fight climate change by occamrazor on Monday June 14, 2021 @07:03AM (#27501219)
The clean water initiative would have denied public subsidies to farmers who didn’t drastically reduce pesticide use.

The farmers‘ lobby and the right wing parties representing a majority of the votes were against it. The outcome was not surprising.

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Re:Swiss narrowly reject tax hike to fight climate change by soco on Monday June 14, 2021 @07:11AM (#27501268)
Don't forget the usual Swiss mentalities: 1. we always did it this way and it worked and 2. we're already an extraordinary country nothing more is needed.
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