Dutch farmers organise mass protests in face of farm closures

Re:Dutch farmers organise mass protests in face of farm clos... by masklinn on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @01:48PM (#31991404)

> I think a majority of people in NL would sacrifice the local nature (to some degree) to solve this crisis.

The only crisis is that farmers have known for years they're absolutely major polluters and something would have to give, and as far as their concerned what has to give is the country.

> Point being, it's European rules rather than concern for nature, that is the trigger.

Bullshit.

The EU set aside money for financing nature reserves in member countries. The netherlands were happy to apply for 150 of them or so, and take the money.

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Re:Dutch farmers organise mass protests in face of farm clos... by rocqua on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @06:41AM (#31999095)

We applied for these rules decades ago. Now, we regret that, and I presume we would be willing to pay back the money to roll back the application. If we got more money from the areas than we are now willing to spend on solving this, that would be a separate outrageous government decision.

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