"Greta Thunberg and three dozen members of the environmentalist group Extinction Rebellion turned Venice's Grand Canal lime green on Monday to decry the scant progress governments around the world have made toward phasing out fossil fuels. Extinction Rebellion's waterborne demonstration, which made the City of Water resemble St. Patrick's Day in Chicago, was one of several protests at lakes, fountains, and waterways in 10 cities throughout Italy following the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Brazil."
"In addition to releasing non-toxic fluorescein dye into Venice's canals, Thunberg and her team hung a banner that read "Stop Ecocide" from the Rialto Bridge. They also wore red clothing with veils over their face and carried instruments in a mock funeral dirge that mourned the failure of COP30 members to agree to imposing limits on fossil fuel consumption."
"Let's symbolically paint green the waters of Italy, many contaminated daily by industries supported by our own government, because this is the world toward which current climate policies are dragging us,"
Greta Thunberg joined 35 Extinction Rebellion activists to dye Venice's Grand Canal lime green and hang a "Stop Ecocide" banner from the Rialto Bridge. The group released non-toxic fluorescein dye and staged a mock funeral dirge while wearing red clothing and veils. The action was one of protests at lakes, fountains, and waterways in 10 Italian cities following COP30 in Brazil. Activists intended to spotlight insufficient government action to phase out fossil fuels and to criticize industries contributing to daily contamination. The United States did not attend COP30, and the European Union signed a criticized, weakened agreement after threatening to veto. Local authorities issued a 48-hour ban and fines to Thunberg and others.
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