Like her or hate her, 22-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is someone you simply can’t ignore. Truth is, she’s always triggered passionate reactions — good or bad.
This time, Thunberg caused a stir alongside some of her fellow activists after she had been banned from the historic Italian city of Venice.
Namely, Thunberg and other protestors from Extinction Rebellion, a UK-founded global environmental movement, appeared in Venice where Thunberg spilled a harmless green dye into the Grand Canals of Venice, one of the most visited tourist attractions in the world.
Meanwhile, Extinction Rebellion carried out protests at nine other sites across Italy, aligning their actions with the end of the COP30 summit in Brasília, where nations could not agree on ending fossil fuel use.
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Activists focused on rivers and fountains in Bologna, Genoa, Milan, Padua, Palermo, Parma, Trieste, Turin, Taranto, and Venice to draw attention to the “massive” impacts of climate collapse.
For what Thunberg and 35 other activists did, Venice banned them from the city for 48 hours and fined them $170 each, the Daily Mail reported.
The activists also hung a “Stop Ecocide” banner on the Rialto Bridge spanning the Grand Canal and carried out a flash-mob while moving slowly through crowds of tourists dressed in red with veils covering their faces.
Luca Zaia, the governor of Veneto, criticized the demonstration, calling it “a disrespectful gesture for our city, its history, and its fragility.”
“I am even more surprised to see Greta Thunberg among the authors of this useless protest, who clearly aim – more than raising awareness about the environment – to give visibility to themselves,” Zaia added.
The group accused Italy of helping block the most ambitious climate proposals at COP30, where talks ran overtime amid fights over mentioning fossil fuels. In the end, a strong phase-out plan was dropped after opposition from oil-producing nations, and the EU accepted a weaker, voluntary deal.
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