{"id":1935454,"date":"2023-05-22T04:57:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T08:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rome-mayor-says-climate-activists-cause-environmental-damage-after-turning-trevi-fountain-water-black-using-charcoal\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T04:59:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T08:59:02","slug":"rome-mayor-says-climate-activists-cause-environmental-damage-after-turning-trevi-fountain-water-black-using-charcoal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rome-mayor-says-climate-activists-cause-environmental-damage-after-turning-trevi-fountain-water-black-using-charcoal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome mayor blames climate activists for turning Trevi Fountain water black with charcoal, causing environmental damage."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frome-mayor-says-climate-activists-cause-environmental-damage-after-turning-trevi-fountain-water-black-using-charcoal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1935454&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Climate Activists Turn Trevi Fountain Water Black in Protest Against Fossil Fuels<\/h2>\n<h3>Protesters Pour Diluted Charcoal into the Fountain<\/h3>\n<p>In a dramatic protest against public funding for fossil fuels, climate eco-anarchists in Rome turned the Trevi Fountain water black on Sunday. Protesters from the \u201cUltima Generazione\u201d (the Last Generation) climbed into the 18th-century fountain with banners denouncing fossil fuels and mixed diluted charcoal into the water. They shouted, \u201cOur country is dying\u201d as they did so.<\/p>\n<h3>Protesters Demand End to Fossil Fuel Subsidies<\/h3>\n<p>The protesters linked themselves to the \u201cLET\u2019S NOT PAY FOR FOSSIL\u201d campaign, which calls on the Italian government to stop public subsidies to all fossil fuels immediately. The group believes that fossil fuels caused a recent deadly flood in Emilia Romagna and the Marches, which claimed 14 lives, forced 10,000 people to abandon their homes, and left over 30,000 residents without electricity.<\/p>\n<h3>Local Authorities Intervene<\/h3>\n<p>Within minutes of the demonstration, local authorities intervened and dragged the protesters out of the fountain while hundreds of people visiting the landmark watched.<\/p>\n<h3>Rome Mayor Applauds Authorities<\/h3>\n<p>Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri applauded Rome Capital Police authorities in a Facebook post for stopping the activists and likely avoiding any permanent damage to the fountain\u2019s porous marble. He called on the climate protestors to stop such \u201cabsurd\u201d attacks on the nation\u2019s artistic heritage in a tweet.<\/p>\n<h3>Protesters Risk Damage to Precious Monuments<\/h3>\n<p>Gualtieri said the \u201cindifferent environmental damage\u201d caused by activists has prompted the fountain to undergo a complex and costly cleaning operation that could result in waste of 300,000 liters of water to empty and refill the pool again, which functions to recycle water. He added that such gestures are completely wrong and damaging, as they risk damaging precious common goods such as monuments and force public administrations into very expensive and environmentally impactful restoration interventions.<\/p>\n<h3>Last Generation Demands Action on Climate Change<\/h3>\n<p>Last Generation began protesting in Italy last year before the general election, demanding lawmakers make climate change their priority. The group tweeted, \u201c1 out of 4 houses in Italy is vulnerable to floods. How much longer do we have to wait for those in government to take concrete action?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco-anarchists in Rome dyed the Trevi Fountain water black in a protest against public funding for fossil fuels. The group, called &#8220;Ultima Generazione,&#8221; poured diluted charcoal into the pool, claiming that fossil fuels caused a recent flood that killed 14 people in northeastern Italy. The protestors climbed the fountain and held a banner reading &#8220;Our future is not negotiable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1935455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4091,4212,5692,5623,27323,4321,9471,5120,27322,4602,21347,27321,5994],"class_list":["post-1935454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-activists","tag-black","tag-blames","tag-causing","tag-charcoal","tag-climate","tag-damage","tag-environmental","tag-fountain","tag-mayor","tag-rome","tag-trevi","tag-water"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}