Members of Italy's Last Generation
(Ultima Generazione - UG) group staged an act of civil
disobedience to highlight the need to tackle the climate
crisis on Sunday by pouring black liquid made from diluted
vegetable charcoal into the Trevi fountain in Rome.
The group of around ten people also stood inside the fountain
holding a banner reading 'We Won't Pay for Fossil Fuels' - a
reference to the campaign to stop public investment in, and
subsidies of, fossil fuels, which are behind the greenhouse
emissions causing the climate crisis.
"Our country is dying," they shouted amid insults from tourists
and passers by before local police intervened.
The protest came on the heels of several similar acts of civil
disobedience in Italy to draw attention to the climate crisis
in recent weeks.
Sunday's protesters reportedly made specific reference to the
flooding and landslide emergency in Emilia Romagna caused by a
new wave of extreme weather which scientists have linked to
global warming.
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