Climate activists glued to doors at East Midlands airport
to the doors of the short-haul East Midlands airport to draw attention to the
environmental impacts of flying as part of a European day of action on short-haul
flights.
themselves to the passenger entrances to the airport. Supporters handed out leaflets
to airport customers encouraging them not to fly next time, and a banner carried
by helium-filled balloons was also released in the departure lounge bearing the
slogan ‘Let’s fry’. Last week another activist from Plane Stupid, Penny Eastwood,
a mother of two from Yorkshire, glued herself both to the doors of Lastminute.com
HQ in London in protest at the ever growing greenhouse gas emissions from aviation.
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and unsustainable and that short haul journeys can easily be taken by train or
bus which are both over 10 times less polluting. Demonstrations and protests
happened at airports across the UK and Europe, including Heathrow, Gatwick, Bristol,
Southampton, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and others. Aviation
is the fastest-growing source of greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide. In the UK,
emissions from aviation more than doubled in ten years. In May the government
quoted the figure of 13% as aviation’s contribution to UK climate impacts. If
you include flights to and from the UK by UK citizens (the government excludes
the former), the sector now contributes about 18.5% of the climate-changing emissions
for which this country is responsible. (Indymedia UK) 16.6.2007
