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Why we shut Stansted Airport | Plane Stupid - bringing the aviation industry back down to earth!

...We did so with heavy hearts, knowing it would disrupt passengers, because we knew the consequences of this action couldn't be worse than the consequences of inaction. If irreversible climate change kicks in, millions of lives will be destroyed.

...If all official channels fail, we are committed to using our bodies to physically stop carbon emissions.

We face the legal consequences of our actions knowing that for this movement the Stansted action is only the beginning. The UK has to make massive cuts in carbon today, not in 50 years. Plane Stupid will be taking direct action until we see the UK taking climate change seriously.

Christopher Booker: How Long Before We See Eco-Terrorism?

Reading the comments of those responsible for today's closure of a major airport, costing millions of pounds, we do seem to be inching ever nearer to the day when "saving the planet" from global warming might seem in some eyes to justify even more destructive and violent acts of "eco-terrorism".

davidthompson: Behold My Virtue (2)

It’s odd how some are so keen to dismiss the “normal democratic processes” in favour of undemocratic, criminal - and much more exciting - avenues. Specifically, avenues unburdened by details like persuasion, verification and reasoned argument, and which instead hold passengers to ransom with a display of theatrical onanism. One wonders if Mr Hickman would be similarly well-disposed to other fringe groups, perhaps groups antithetical to his worldview, which nonetheless deem their cause of such importance that discussion and legality are readily dispensed with.