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It goes real well with the earring
I can sort of understand their logic. That's no longer a beach, just a sea of plastic.
Skin cancer right now in Sardinia.
I went and dug up Italian articles. The backstory is that there was a devastating fire due to human causes, so they came up with the umbrella ban to make access unpalatable and limit human occupation.
You don't even need Italian articles, it's in the OP
they keep talking about how it's for ecological protection but never explain what one thing has to do with the other. how does limiting umbrellas protect the environment?
It deters people from going to the beach. Masses of people usually aren't good for the environment.
Unless I'm missing something, it's literally just that they think a beach full of umbrellas is ugly.
It's not that people might leave them behind and junk up the beach and ocean?
I could believe any of these reasons, honestly.
A beach umbrella doesn't seem like the kind of thing often left behind, whereas many smaller items would be. Still, based on the evident size of that beach, the effort seems fairly trivial for a public employee to take a quick look after closing time such as to remove potential umbrellas left behind.
You'd think, but people leave behind the dumbest/most useful things sometimes.
My 2nd sentence covers that possibility, tho.
I feel for the officials who had to make this decision because it's a hard one. They have to balance the preservation of their environment with the influx of people onto the beach.
This is far removed from coherent thought.
Sure and next year they start renting them out.
Can you have a pop up tent?
No, it's specifically forbidden, along with portable gazebos.
No mention of yurts?
Sweet!
What about a shack? Is that allowed?
Think of the children under 10!
And the children over 65 clearly don't take any shit from City Hall.
They are.. they get umbrellas.