Climate crisis November 17, 2019
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On Tuesday night, as Veneto councillors were debating the climate emergency in Ferro Fini Palace, Venice experienced its worst flooding since 1966.
Politicians from the regional council’s majority rightwing parties: the League, Brothers of Italy and Forza Italia, rejected amendments to fight the climate crisis in the 2020 budget that were proposed by the centre-left Democratic party.
Sharing pictures of the room as water entered, Andrea Zanoni, the Democratic party’s deputy chairman of the council’s environment committee, wrote on Facebook: “Ironically, the chamber was flooded two minutes after the majority parties rejected our proposals to tackle climate change.”
The question is will these parties pay politically for this?
Will they pay in the future?
Only if a red-green alliance convinces a majority of the feasiblity and desirability of the changes needed to minimise the damage already in train due to climate collapse.
Until then it’s a feature of all rhetorically “anti-system” right wing parties that they are climate emergency deniers. Instead climate action is lumped with paranoid narratives around feminism, immigration and trans-national agreements and structures.
And it’s a hit with their supporters.
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