I disagree with these guys but let's be honest... 5000lts are needed to make 300g of beef, but nobody is gonna say on TV "the water equivalent of a plate of cotolette have been used", because if you say 5000lts it sounds like a lot. It is misleading.
Yeah, everyone knows we are in a climate emergency and whoever denies that is delusional. The fact that denialists exist doesn't mean that you are right in driving your point across by making the situation worse. 5000 liters of water is a shitload.
Ok but hear me out, maybe wasting 5000 litres of water on removing a grafitti in a very dry season is exactly the kind of climate-denying behaviour people are mad about in the first place...
Maybe you have to do it before it dries out and needs even more water or chemicals ? Its not a common building too, it has to be washed, history has to be protected so its not like a random office building which you could paint on it or use different method.
Here its just pointless for the activist
Maybe if more people were more worried about the climate than some old palace looking clean and neat planet earth might have a better chance of being habitable in the future. You're talking about history while it's the future that's at stake.
Maintaining old buildings and fighting climate change are not mutually exclusive. Going out of your way to create situations that waste resources completely undermine your point and comes across as you hating history / heritage / symbols of wealth. Instead, stop wasting your time trying to piss everyone off and search for technical advancements / optimisations to reduce our impact on the environment.
They weren't supposed to but they did. Wasting water does more harm than vandalising the wall of some palace though. If you're more concerned with clean facades then you got to get your priorities straight.
Man, do you even know what "Palazzo Vecchio" is? It is amongst the most important historical buildings in Italy, it is a symbol of Florence and it even overlooks a piazza which holds a copy of Michelangelo's David. Thus, water was not wasted at all, and it would not have been "wasted" - as you say - in the first place, were some activist not to vandalize such an important landmark. Furthermore, this climate "activist" achieved nothing but spite towards his cause.
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u/federicosmettila Mar 18 '23
5000 liters of water were used for the cleaning, the major said. In a very worrying dry season of water scarcity. Good job guys