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Scotsman.com News - International - French in a hole as toads halt Europe's biggest M-way project:

"The valley is home to several other rare species, including the woodlark, northern harrier and the red-backed shrike, but it is the toad that has been adopted by environmentalists fighting to stop the 288km motorway, which is the most expensive ever built in France."

I suppose it's nice to know our councils and governments are not the only ones which do not care about the environment and the survival of nature. Who cares, We need a road. Who cares? The road building will go on my CV. Who cares, it's only a few toads. We have had old, old trees cut down, unique areas of bushland with native species destroyed. It's only trees. Only dirt. We need a road. We need a housing estate. Then we will come to a world with no nature. Who cares? We'll be awfully rich. You would think people could think. THINK. The planet is organic. There's a reason for that. We keep ignoring it has a pulse. Put concrete and bitumen all over our bodies, and how would we cope??