The money from the fountain gets collected and sent to Caritas, a catholic charity that focuses on health, disaster relief, poverty, and migration. I am a Queer atheist person in Spain that uses their services and they haven’t once made my queerness an issue. Nor have they exposed me to their religious views.
So, shrug, I’m not gonna shit on them doing the tradition that many diplomatic events in Rome do.
Objectively, it sounds like it’s an innocent tradition and a healthy charity.
Subjectively, it’s tone-deaf af, when the rule-makers perform superstition for such a massive world-changing problem. Basically “thoughts and prayers.”
I can guarantee you that nobody did this with the idea it’d help fight climate change
They are literally the people who can enact change, the fuck do they need luck for?
Hoping that the situation solves itself without having to make hard decisions or, Gott bewahre, sacrifices.
Punishing corporations for their misbehavior is too much work
Boris looks confused at the idea of throwing money at anything other than his mates.
I’m surprised there isn’t a follow up photo of him falling into the fountain somehow.
Look at the average age of the people in that picture. You think they care for climate change? They know they’ll be dead soon enough.
I despise Modi but there’s not one single Indian who doesn’t care about climate change. It’s at least one thing literally all politicians and people of all classes get behind here.
When was this? Merkel and her party luckily aren’t in the government anymore.
October 2021. Not wishing for “good luck fighting the climate emergency.”
