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Iceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’ (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] Arkarian@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who cares if the whales die horribly and the species goes extinct, right? Oh yeah, new "regulations" make it "good" to do the same shit somehow, so no problem.

[–] kier@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it's never about the planet. it's never about life on earth

it's always about "the economy"

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The planet has burned to a crisp and society no longer exists, but for a very short moment we made a few shareholders slightly richer.