At Some Point-- Very Soon-- It Will Be Too Late To Save Venice From The Climate Crisis, But The Right-Wing Parties There Don't Give More Than Trump Does
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I used to live in Innsbruck, Austria. I was stuck there because of a medical condition. It was the most boring place I ever lived. I used to escape when I could to Munich (a 2 hour drive) and when I was up for a longer drive, to Venice (4 hours). Munich had a great art scene. Venice is a great art scene. I grew to love the city even if I wasn't the biggest fans of an 8 to 8 and a half hour round trip drive. I was horrified on Thursday when I hear that the flooding in St Marks Square was thigh deep. I can remember when planks had to be laid across it, the flooding being ankle high. Thigh deep... that's like a swim!
And the following day, CNN reported that the province's regional council flooded for the first time in its history.
And the council chamber in Ferro Fini Palace started to take in water around 10 p.m. local time, as councilors were debating the 2020 regional budget, Democratic Party councilor Andrea Zanoni said in a long Facebook post.The council's Thursday and Friday meetings were moved to Treviso, which is inland. Venice's mayor Luigi Brugnaro blamed climate change for the high tides and said the flooding was "a wound that will leave a permanent mark."
"Ironically, the chamber was flooded two minutes after the majority League, Brothers of Italy, and Forza Italia parties [neo-fascist parties which are climate change deniers on a Trumpian scale] rejected our amendments to tackle climate change," Zanoni, who is deputy chairman of the environment committee, said in the post, which also has photographs of the room under water.
Among the rejected amendments were measures to fund renewable sources, to replace diesel buses with "more efficient and less polluting ones," to scrap polluting stoves and reduce the impact of plastics, he said.
Zanoni went on to accuse Veneto regional president Luca Zaia, who is a member of Matteo Salvini's far-right League Party, of presenting a budget "with no concrete actions to combat climate change."
The regional council's spokesman Alessandro Ovizach confirmed to CNN that the council was flooded after discussing amendments to the 2020 budget-- without specifying which ones.
Friday, the BBC reported a 6 foot inundation in Venice with 80% of the city impacted. The right-wing climate denial parties are freaking out and now denying their denialism!
I'm going to let you guess why I'm including this short clip by Naomi Klein, which she shot yesterday, in this post. No mention of Venice or Italy per se but... Just watch and spend a minute thinking about it. Want to help a movement candidate reach office? Here, bothers and sisters. We're not going to get many chances at getting this right.
Labels: climate crisis, flooding, Italy, Naomi Klein, Venice
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 9:00 PM
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I have fond memories of Venice too. However, when I was last there less than a decade ago, the square flooded almost to knee depth.
To be accurate, it was too late to save anyone from climate change about the time MLK was gunned down. Resonance baked into the climate forcings combined with mankind's refusals to stop overbreeding and stop burning sequestered carbon for power means that it's already too late.
The calamity has been very slow-motion as the anecdotes over the past several decades (your ankle-deep; my calf-deep; the current thigh-deep) taken as a whole will testify.
The only change from here on is the rate of acceleration that warming undergoes. Refined models will continue to undershoot observations for decades to come.
It's easy to condemn those right-wing and ubercapitalist groups who deny science (for fun and/or profit). But the truth is that even those who you might presume to be 'woke' on the topic are NOT proposing anything that will even moderate the ACCELERATION of warming, much less stop or undo it.
" We make the weather" LOL You damn well invent it. There can be no 'settled science'; without data. There can be no data when something is yet to happen. Calling such representations 'settled science' would be moronic - and insults morons.
The warnings that this was going to happen to Venice have been issued for years. Nothing was done. No one wanted to spend the money necessary to protect these valuable works of art. What this demonstrates is that there really only is one work of art that anyone cares about. It's called "Profit".
opit... no data when something is yet to happen? the whole purpose of science is to form theories that PREDICT things that can be tested and either validated or disproved.
If your statement were true, you would have no computer on which to spew your ignorance; no phone, your car wouldn't run and you would have died in childhood of a disease for which you were immunized.
dumbest sentence ever written on this site. congrats.
You probably have only another 5 - 10 years to visit Venice. Be sure to see the city only during low tide. Otherwise, you'll need hip-waders and half the city will be closed off.
After that, the city, which has been sinking for centuries, will probably have to be abandoned.
A pity. One of the more beautiful places mankind has ever created. But what mankind cherishes, he invariably destroys.
What were those lyrics... "You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye"
Can anyone translate 6:28 into American English? My dictionary doesn't cover such inane utterances.
yes, 2:02. it means you and opit are too stupid to comment here.
And you are certainly the ultimate authority on stupid, aren't you 6:54? You display your qualification for the office every time you show up to spew nonsense and pretend it to be pearls to cast before us swine.
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