Climate activist Greta Thunberg banned from Venice after Grand Canal dyed green
Source: ABC News
Climate activist Greta Thunberg was temporarily banned from Venice after the Italian city's Grand Canal was dyed green in an act of protest.
Thunberg, 22, joined environmental group Extinction Rebellion over the weekend when they poured dye into the iconic water corridors that outline the historic city, The Telegraph reported.
Dye was also thrown into waterways and fountains in several other Italian cities, including Milan, Palermo and Bologna, according to Extinction Rebellion.
"Vandalism doesn't protect the environment," [the Veneto region's governor] Zaia wrote on Instagram in Italian. "These acts damage Venice, require restoration work, and -- paradoxically --generate pollution."
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/climate-activist-greta-thunberg-banned-venice-after-grand/story?id=127862310
St. Patrizio's Day!
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I heard they banned her from Venice for all of four hours, so they must have been REALLY annoyed.
It's been done before anyway, in 1968, in fact:
A 3-kilometer-long painting
This may look like a photo of St. Patrick’s Day in Venice, but it was actually a June morning in 1968 when the Argentine painter Nicolás García Uriburu climbed aboard a gondola on Venice’s Grand Canal to embark on his largest and most ambitious painting to date. He enlisted the help of Memo, a gondolier, to transport him up and down the city’s main canal as he dyed the water a vibrant chartreuse green with 30 kilograms of Fluorescein, an organic non-toxic powdered dye.
and also in 2023:
https://abc7.com/post/rialto-bridge-grand-canal-venice-green-water-italy/13312215/
