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Finland urges EU to consider banning Brazilian beef over Amazon fires
- ailideex 7y agoCan they ban it without EU consent?
- moksly 7y agoThere is a bit of a difference in the kind of impact you achieve with 510 million vs 5,5 million people. As a Dane I support this ban, even if it’s a tad to the side of populism. It would probably be prudent to start turning some of the EU farmland into forest as well, so it’s not so much throwing rocks from a glass house. But we can do both things.
- kzrdude 7y agoForestation has been increasing in Europe the last decades already, so that's kind of positive https://www.eea.europa.eu/soer-2015/europe/forests https://www.eea.europa.eu/soer-2015/europe/forests
- squarefoot 7y agoPopulist acts and language sometimes are the only working ways to get a simple concept into the brains of the voters. It all boils down to the purpose it is used for.
- libx 7y agoI'd also support a ban over danish goods because of the murder of the whales that danes do.
- briandear 7y agoIf they can’t, what’s the point of national sovereignty?
- groundlogic 7y agoThis makes so much sense. Genius move from Finland. (Swede here.)
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- dang 7y agoMost comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20778566 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20778566.
- enterx 7y agofree market they said. it's going to be fun they said.