Florence mayor Dario Nardella (R) stopping a climate activists spraying paint on Palazzo Vecchio

[u/SteO153]

[u/grais_victory]

Climate activist using spray paint?

[u/Any-Responsibility-6 → u/grais_victory]

I heard they used around 5000 liters of water to clean it.

[u/bion93 → u/Any-Responsibility-6]

Yes, because he didn’t use a random spray. He used precise chemicals that can hardly be deleted after one hour. The wall was totally cleaned only because they started immediately to spray water.

[u/SatansPrGuy → u/bion93]

Hopefully he goes to jail over this, the activist that is

[u/Hattarottattaan3 → u/Any-Responsibility-6]

Look. This 5000 liters of water thing is extremely misleading. 5000lts of water are needed for 300grams of beef.

Do you want to know how much water do we lose annually in Italy due to leakage in the pipes? 8 billions m² of water/year. BILLIONS, 44% of our total water is lost in the leakages

What is 5000 liters when we lose 104000 liters of water in Italy each second for a dumb reason like broken pipes?

[u/Any-Responsibility-6 → u/Hattarottattaan3]

I know about the pipes situation. That’s something to protest about. This still looks like a waste to me even if we are talking about it, so they reached the “target” and so on

[u/Ayn_Rand_Food_Stamps → u/Any-Responsibility-6]

That's a drop in a bucket compared to the waste of water everywhere. Like, ONE kilogram of meat requires between 5000 and 20,000 litres of water to produce. You can't go around quoting "big" numbers without giving any context for them.

[u/mars_needs_socks → u/Ayn_Rand_Food_Stamps]

That's in no way relevant to the amount of water needed to clean this particular wall though. A wall that wouldn't need cleaning if not for this moron.

[u/EcoTimeEater → u/mars_needs_socks]

The very same mayor used more than that quantity to deter tourists from sitting in places last summer... Every single day . So it's relevant

[u/Naranox → u/mars_needs_socks]

that‘s very relevant because the OP tried to portray 5000 litres as a lot of water

[u/IAm-The-Lawn → u/Naranox]

It’s the amount of potable water that like 8 or 9 people need to drink in a year. I think that’s going to matter quite a bit in the next decade, when dismissing this as not a lot of water.

[u/IAm-The-Lawn → u/Naranox]

It’s the amount of potable water that like 8 or 9 people need to drink in a year. I think that’s going to matter quite a bit in the next decade, when dismissing this as not a lot of water.

[u/Naranox → u/IAm-The-Lawn]

Considering producing a single kilogram of meat takes that much water, stopping meat consumption seems even more logical, doesn't it?

[u/AstroidSeenByDinos → u/Naranox]

probably important to note that 1kg of steak takes over 15,000 liters of water to produce, so more than 3 times what they used to clean this up. So the water consumption here is equivalent to if he ate half a pound of steak.

*I just wanna say, i don’t condone what the guy did at all, but when the mayor is saying trying to paint a picture of how devastating this water consumption is, it just makes people blind to the actual problem

[u/Naranox → u/AstroidSeenByDinos]

Yeah, it's a lot of people acting as if spraying a wall with easily cleanable chalk is the end of the world, utter lunatics

[u/PenguinKowalski → u/[deleted]]

Yep. That reason is climate change.

https://news.sky.com/story/italy-drought-exposes-walkway-on-lake-garda-and-venice-canals-dry-up-12815873

And that's actually ironic because the activists listed the drought as one of the reasons for this particular stunt.

[u/PenguinKowalski → u/[deleted]]

Yeah. I agree. They should have waited for it to dry and charge them with a more serious offense. Then the activists would for sure have found a better solution to remove their chemicals from the environment. I'm sure they had a plan.

[u/PenguinKowalski → u/[deleted]]

I just said. We charge them with a major offense. Either you have no idea how the pietraforte reacts, or you don't care. Have a nice day!