Je sais pas pour l'argent mais chaque fois que je passe en train à côté du terrain vague déboisé, défriché et clôturé, je trouve ça vraiment dommage qu'on aille toute décrissé pis tassé la nature pour rien.
En fait il y a probablement une partie de l'argent qui est allé aux entrepreneurs en terrassement et construction qui son allés toute raser. On doit même encore payer pour les clôtures présentement.
There's a video clip of a song in French with a similar concept from 2003. A child is frolicking and playing in nature until we discover that it's all synthetic, her time is up, and other children are lining up for their time in "nature" too. Mickey 3D - Respire on YouTube.
From a description of the song on Wikipedia:
EDIT: The description is lacking. The lyrics are speaking for themselves and here's a translation of a few key lines.
"Come and listen kid, I'll tell you the story of mankind. At first, there was nothing. Nature was following its course. There was no roads. But man came and elements were mastered. There's no coming back anytime soon. We even began to pollute deserts.
You must breathe. It has to be said.
In a short future we'll have consumed nature. Your one eyed grand-children will ask why you have two. They'll ask how you could let this happen. You'll reply it's not my fault, it's the ancient's fault, but there will no nobody left to defend you. You'll tell them about when you could eat fruits laying in a field, how animals were roaming the forest, that every spring birds would come back.
You must breathe. It has to be said. You must breathe. Tomorrow it will get worse.
The worst part of this story is that we're slaves, somehow murderers, incapable of looking at the trees without feeling guilty, half defeated and totally miserable. So there is it kid, the story of mankind. It's not so nice and I don't know the end. You weren't born in a cabbage, but in a hole that we fill like a cesspit."