Last Generation Activist Bjork Ruggeri Defends Smearing the Senate in Connection with Myrta Merlino’s The Air That Blows Documentary

“No more food grows.” All true. Thus begins the defense of Bjork Ruggeri of Last Generation, a group today on trial for smearing the Senate. In connection with Myrta Merlino sui The Air That Blows, the young woman justifies her colleagues and their gesture. “I – she explains in the episode of Friday 12 May on La7 – was physically there but I didn’t smear the Senate, for this reason they didn’t arrest me by express but I spent 12 hours at the police station. The facade of the Senate was not damaged and was clean the next day.”

This is why Bjork is keen to reiterate that “the real damage is not done by us, but the real damage caused to the population and to the artistic heritage is at the hands of the various governments and the climate crisis. It is absurd that the Senate often forms a civil action against those citizens that it should instead represent”. The proof? According to him the government is investing in fossil fuels, on which people are asking to “stop invest in their death“. How? “Using Italian tax money”.

Hence the tirade: “They can’t disagree, why the food is no longer growingthere is no more water”. As if food would grow. Then another brushstroke: “Conflicts will increase”. At that point it is Alessandro Salusti to bring the activist back to reality: “A protest must have a purpose. Saving the world is a beautiful purpose and it is everyone’s purpose, but I wonder what the point of protest is”. Even more so if we consider that “Western governments have been working for years to pollute the world less. It’s madness, there is no goal”. According to the director of Libero, in fact, the real problem is China and India: “It’s not that their air stays there. Third world countries are light years behind on this”.