1. These aren’t pictures from Venice, the pictures are taken in Burano. The canals there are always clean and filled with fish and swans.
2. These pictures (unknowingly) transport ecofascist ideas. They transport the ecofascist idea that the Corona virus did the earth a pleasure, which paves the way for genocide and eugenics. It’s racist and ethnonationalistic. It’s social Darwinism. The people who are killed by natural disasters and pandemics (which “clean the nature”) are mostly poor, disabled, Black and Indigenous People of Color, non-westerners, and other marginalized people (aka not the people who caused them). The people who exploit(ed) humans and nature are still profiting. They buy their bunker, they are able to buy food when others can’t, they get tested, they are able to work remotely and get paid, and able to do social distancing/quarantine. They still get to profit off of it (now buying cheap stocks in the crisis which will get pricier once the pandemic is over). They own hospital chains, supermarkets and online shops, which now make lots of money but still pay their now-so-existential staff badly, give them zero-hour-contracts, lay them off and/or ignore safety measures. It’s capitalism which enables the exploitation which leads to natural disasters and pandemic crisis.
3. People should have clean water and air whether or not there is a pandemic.
Literature on ecofascism:
- https://theintercept.com/2019/08/05/el-paso-shooting-eco-fascism-migration/