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
+1 for Caritas. My mum, a non-religous person, worked for them for quite some time and I’ve never heard a bad thing from her.
A friend once applied for a job at Caritas in Germany and got rejected for the reason of not being catholic, but christian. I think you could argue that is okay, but by German law it actually is not.
I realy don’t understand why the church still gets to do so many things that are simply not legal. It seems like the law that they have to follow is an older version.
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Wait what does Jesus have in common with vampires? I’ve always seen him represented more as a Zombie (?)
He’s a reverse-vampire. He makes other people drink his blood.
Holy shit you’re right. And since the Bible was published before 1700 (when the term was born), I guess it would be even more accurate to say a vampire is a reverse-Jesus…?
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Just like declining birth rates in the US.
“We need to have more babies! Our population is declining!”
Well we could subsidize child care.
“Fuck you! Oh whatever shall we do?!”
Well we could provide housing programs for people who want to have children.
“Fuck you! Oh we need to think of something.”
Oh, I know, we could subsidize fertility treatments for parents that want children but are having difficulties and can’t afford 10s of thousands of uncovered medical expenses at once!
“Fuck you! Oh, woe is me, there’s nothing anyone can do!”
Left out “we could just let more people move here”
But then
our society wouldn’t be white dominated anymore!our culture! Oh our culture! Demographics! Crime! Ahhhh! Be afraid!This is Japan too. Very much so right now
th japanese stance on the rapid population decline is so fucked lol
100%
Definitely not that simple. Immigration is good, but you need the physical and social infrastructure to manage it.
Why would we need new infrastructure? We’ve had high immigration rates in the past, we could just do that again.
Think about it… housing, medical care, transportation. These need to keep up with population growth. If growth is achieved through immigration, then you need infrastructure to support more people. I’m in Canada, immigration has been seen as a positive thing for a long time, but there is a resource squeeze right now and increasing immigration is seen as adding fuel to the fire.
We are trying to address those issues, but it would have been a lot better to put infrastructure in place before aiming to increase the population size.
I don’t realy see how it’s more expensive to keep a few immigrants alive, who are willing to work and often already have good education, than raising and educating a child for years to come.
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I actually agree for the sake of the Earth and humanity long term, if there is such a thing anymore.
I acknowledge though, that it will be very painful for humanity to adjust to downsizing, and in sociopolitical discourse, short medium term humanity is all most ever consider relevant. But yes, I agree with the long game position that humanity should strive to shrink and find equilibrium with our world.
It’s sad to me that we live in a system where growth is the only goal. If the economy only grows by one percent its a crisis. Like what the fuck. I think you don’t have to be a genius to see that infinite growth with finite resources is somehow impossible.
Infinite growth is the ideology of a cancer cell
No no no, don’t you see? The growth MUST continue… Or else
Is that Angela Merkel in the middle? If so this must be at least an old photo. She is not the German chancellor anymore. Not that that would make things any better…
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Just wanted to make sure. Not sure if any US representatives are in this picture though. But it kinda looks a bit like Merkel and Martin Schulz (2nd from the right, also a German politician and at the time probably President of the European Parliament - this guy looks like him) are on the lookout to see if our friends from America (on maps to the left/west from europe) would like to flip a coin as well.
That’s Charles Michel, President of the European council. I admit they look a bit similar on this photo, but Martin Schulz was President of EU parliament until 2017.
Ahh, yes. Thanks for clearing that up.
And Boris from the UK.
I guess it didn’t work. Any other lucky rivers or wishing wells around?
Punishing corporations for their misbehavior is too much work
Especially when they barely pay your bills
Right? There’s nothing you defend, these major corporations and billionaires are literally ruining everything and offering no benefit. Most of the best stuff that happens is from publicly funded research or volunteer work.
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.”
Thanks for the fact-check. I hate that we’ve gotten to ragebait on Lemmy as well.
Boris Johnson was already 2 prime ministers ago.
The rate they burn through them, that could have been last week.
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.
They did NOT toss coins for “good luck fighting the climate emergency.” Maybe some did, who knows. It was not a collective wish for something, just a stage for a nice group photo.
https://www.yahoo.com/video/made-wish-g20-leaders-toss-113600490.html?guccounter=1
From the Yahoo article: “Of course the wishes can’t be revealed to anyone if they are to become true - so who knows what British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel wished for.”
Maybe instead of tossing coins they could sign binding agreements that actually accomplish something
“I wish I didn’t have to let the peasants elect me. I wish I could just have power so I could enrich myself! I wish I didn’t have to stand here for this damn photo!”
We know what they wished for whether they tell us or not lol
Due to reports of misinformation from users I’ll post this comment here.
No. They were not actually tossing coins backwards for good luck fighting climate change. No one knows exactly what the people in this picture were actually wishing good luck for.
I don’t want to come down too hard on people but one of my jobs as moderator is to prevent the spread of misinformation.
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Good mod
Is it possible to pin comments on Lemmy? This one’s kind of buried, it seems a bunch of people missed it.
As long as they’re having fun.
Not like they’d do anything about the many global crises anyway, that would involve inconveniencing the owners.
well toss a coin for good luck while we let corporations rape the planet
Would like to know how many fetch back their coin afterwards…
You think these fuckers used one of their own coins? They were just props that was handed to them. They probably haven’t touched an actual coin themselves in years.
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.
This is literally worthy of nottheonion material lol. 🤣
Can’t hurt or tell the rich what to do for the 99% /s
Words fail.
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