Eoghan Dalton

I think it's outrageous industry propaganda.

There are so many falsehoods contained.

I watched the video

And there are so many falsehoods in there that it's hard to know where to start.

I can't agree more.

I couldn't agree more with Patrick there.

He nails it.

It's just the whole thing is packaged in such a way as to be attractive to children and to have this kind of very lovely soundtrack running throughout that's very kind of evocative and uplifting.

And there's all of this kind of language liberally sprinkled through the whole thing, where you hear birds singing and streams kind of gurgling, and they talk about the nature that's all around in these places, and they describe Sitka plantations as a natural ecosystem.

Whereas, as Patrick said, if you go into one of these places, they're just they're completely dead.

You know, Sitka plantations, there is nothing there.

Yeah.

And then the ending.

So it starts and finishes with kind of birdsong.

And it talks about, for example, we need to look after the biodiversity, the plants and animals that call it home.

Again, almost nothing will call these places home.

There are a few species that will use them because we have so little natural forest left in Ireland, but they use them simply as cover.

There's nothing much else for them in there.

There's nothing for them to eat.

They're dark, silent, empty dead zones, essentially.