Seriously, what was the point? What did this accomplish, other than pissing off the people of Venice?
They were dyeing for attention.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg and dozens of members of the radical Extinction Rebellion group earned a temporary ban from Venice after pouring dye into its iconic Grand Canal, turning its historic waterways bright green.
The vandalism, which risked permanent damage to the beloved UNESCO World Heritage site, was the environmental activist group’s latest stunt protesting climate change, specifically Italy’s opposition to including restrictions on fossil fuels in a deal struck at the COP30 summit in Brazil on Friday.
The group said it also dumped dye into lakes, canals, rivers and fountains in 10 cities around Italy, which it believes somehow will draw attention to what it calls “the massive effects of climate collapse,” the Washington Examiner reported.
After pouring the dye in Venice, the group hung banners reading “Stop Ecocide” from its famous Rialto Bridge spanning the canal and meandered their way flash-mob-style through tourist crowds decked out in red cloaks and veils and being generally creepy.
Italian officials, who slapped Thunberg and her crew of 35 with a 48-hour ban from the City of Canals and a meager $172 fine for their senseless antics, upbraided them for the “disrespectful act towards our city, its history and its fragility.”
Other than annoying people, this did nothing. Just a bunch of wackos. I wonder if Italy will revoke St. Greta’s visitor permit?
IT IS ALL ABOUT THE ECONOMY STUPID
Total private job losses last 4 weeks 60000
Total increase in detainees 2000
Teach what is more important 0
What is theater ?
Which is most like WWE Kayfab ?
Greta banned ?
Isn’t that what she wanted ?
Much more productive gluing oneself to the street or pouring tomato juice on priceless works of art. Those work much better at changing the weather…
I’m thinking that a whole lot of people on the left need to read Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence people. Annoying people is not normally the way to do that, but no one ever accused the left of being particularly bright.
At least this was a one day thing, and we weren’t subjected to days or weeks of her attempts to break the blockade and bring packs of Oodles of Noodles to Gaza. The girl is seriously stupid, but has enough fame to get other people to use her for their own publicity.
I’m just waiting for the lovely Miss Thunberg to tell us that she’s queer or transgendered or non-binary, because that’s the next step along the publicity road.
A lot of people ,especially in your neighborhood, were also annoyed when Black civil righters sat in
At lunch counters demanding service. Or refused to sit in the back of public buses.
Those annoyed people were eventuality marginalized.
Every year more Americans realize the future dangers of global warming
Every year there are fewer climate change deniers, some because their views change, others often by death. That whole climate change cohort is decreasing. Who are the climate change deniers ? Old white men.
SOROS WINS AGAIN
Nice try, Johnny. What “future dangers” are you talking about? Notice “future” as in they haven’t happened yet. And what exactly is being denied?
Nice try, Jilly.
The “future dangers” are continued warming – more floods, droughts, fires, weather extremes, heat waves, redistribution of disease vectors, increasing immigration… etc
You and yours deny that the Earth is warming from the CO2 we’ve added and are adding to the atmosphere.
Mr smith² wrote:
When I arrived in Mt Sterling, Kentucky, in March of my third grade year, 1962, the public schools were segregated, but the handwriting was on the wall. The School Board decided that they would integrate the school in stages, four non-consecutive grades at a time, beginning in August of 1964.
But, as so often happened in the South, integration happened faster than that when the black school mysteriously burned to the ground just two weeks before the start of school. The start of school was delayed for a week, as the school scrambled to figure out how to accommodate the changes, but it did start. Yeah, I was in the sixth grade, and perhaps I missed some of the angst between the adults, but I don’t remember any real problems. For me, having come from Maine, perhaps I missed some of the things southerners felt; I had never even seen a black person before getting to Mt Sterling, as Maine was as white as snow, and California before that, had Mexicans, but no blacks in Antioch.
We didn’t have forced busing if for no other reason than we didn’t have school buses at all; everyone had to make their way to school in our small town. The county school had buses, but the city schools did not.
The real integration battles we’d hear about were not in the South, among mostly smaller communities, but “Southie,” South Boston, and later Wilmington, Delaware.