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"Madam President, a day without laughter is a day not worth living! This report by Mr Gerbrandy is utterly laughable. To start with, the total naivety of thinking that human beings can manipulate the preservation of genetic diversity. Next, it is really laughable to ask accountants to include ecosystems in their accounting systems, to include, so to speak, the birds and the bees in their balance sheets.
However, things become annoying when Mr Gerbrandy argues that we should start developing still more wetlands, for which read swamps, in Europe. That is asking for the return of scary diseases such as malaria.
Things become downright ridiculous when Mr Gerbrandy says he wants to establish a European environmental police, one that would come, like Big Brother, to check whether or not we are sticking to the costly, useless and harmful environmental rules from Brussels.
Moreover, I read that the EU should indoctrinate pupils and students with the new biodiversity doctrine, namely, that quality agricultural land should continue to give way to ecosystems and fisheries be downsized even more, even though we do not actually know what the state of fish stocks is.
However, the biggest joke comes at the end. Mr Gerbrandy wants the Committee on Development to introduce biodiversity protection. Madam President, I am in fits! Unfortunately, Mr Gerbrandy believes in his own ravings. I sincerely hope, however, that this Parliament will show
sense and not go along with his madness. And obviously, Mr Potočnik, we are not going to flood any good farmland in the Netherlands, especially not in Zeeland, because that would be a massive destruction of biodiversity."@en1
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