In these hours, Greenpeace Italy activists and activists and the British action group Everyone Hates Elon they gave birth to a sensational protest complete with mega banner of 400 square meters with the writing: “If you can rent venex for your wedding, you can pay more tax” – “If you can rent Venice for your wedding, then you can pay more taxes” – In Piazza San Marco, in view of the wedding of the billionaire Jeff Bezos, which will be held in the next few days in the lagoon city.
A strongly symbolic protest that has a single purpose, that of highlighting how close and harmfully linked together the luxurious whims of the super rich and social and climatic injustice.
Jeff Bezos represents an economic and social model that is pushing the entire planet towards collapse – declares Simona Abbate, spokesman for Greenpeace Italy. The arrogance of a few billionaires, which show off lifestyles that devastate the environment, is opposed to the daily suffering of millions of people, forced to deal with the consequences of the environmental crisis. The economic model that Bezos embodies is no longer sustainable. Tassing the profits of these super-riches, together with those of the fossil and defense industries, is a fundamental step to achieve the social and climatic justice that we fight every day.
Bezos’ choice to celebrate his wedding with a ceremony that requires the Half city closure It has been further criticized, especially in the light of the fact that only a few weeks ago Bezos himself spent millions of dollars for a spatial journey of only 11 minutes.
The protest was not limited to the square alone, but also saw the symbolic action of the ship Arctic Sunrise of Greenpeace, who until this morning remained anchored in the port of Venice, launching a strong message for a sustainable future. The group reiterated the urgency of a radical change towards a renewable energy system, and of a right taxation for those who, like Bezos, accumulates huge wealth while the planet and people pay the price of their unbridled consumerism.
Tassing the super-riches, fossil industries and the defense sector would be a concrete solution to finance the energy transition and support a welfare system that is now collapsing, concluded Abbate.
