Bonelli brings the stones back to the Adige: “We know that Meloni is not Moses, we ask for strong policies against the climate crisis”

The stones of the Adige river return to their place. A few days ago in parliament Angelo Bonelli, national co-spokesman of green europe and deputy of Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra, had shown some of them to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, attacking the government on the issue of drought. “I’m not Moses, I haven’t drained the Adige”, the response of the prime minister, which has created a lot of controversy.

“I’m here where I was a week ago to document the dramatic effects of the drought: on the Adige river near Rovereto the situation is still truly dramatic today. A few days ago I showed in Parliament these pebbles that I had collected here. Pebbles that in a in a normal situation they would have been at a depth of several meters but this is not the case: the plinths are all dry, they are the plinths of a bridge”, says Bonelli in a video message shared on Twitter.

“As I promised, I will put these pebbles back where I got them. But President Meloni did not respond in Parliament to my request to explain what the government intended to do against drought and to combat climate change. The answer was an incredible laugh from part of the president, while explaining, among other things, that she is not Moses and has not dried up the Adige”.

“You see President Meloni, we know very well that you are not Moses, but neither was Moses who did all this. Whoever did all this is called climate change. What this government, on the other hand, pretends not to see because it continues with its policies based on fossil fuels. This government wants to transform Italy into a gas hub and this means that it still condemns our country to suffer the consequences of extreme weather events”.

“I am once again asking for strong climate policies – continues Bonelli – strong policies against drought: for example, interventions to eliminate water leaks from our pipes which lose 42% of the water, recovering it we could give 40 million people. I ask for a policy against soil consumption. We must act: let’s make a law on soil consumption and focus on renewables. Having said that, now I’m putting the stones back where I got them from, as I promised in my speech, with complete peace of mind to the chamber, but I launch my appeal: President, let’s do something to mitigate this dramatic situation”.