Monday, December 08, 2008

When protesting an allegedly overheating planet in freezing weather, how do you dress?

Chaos at Stansted after climate change protesters storm runway | Mail Online
Lainey Mace, from Norfolk, said: 'It is very worrying that protesters were able to get either close to the runway or on the runway. You would have thought security at an airport would be much tighter than that.'

Asked if she had any sympathy for protesters, she added: 'Not at all. They have caused great inconvenience.'

Air protest was plane stupid
While obviously finding their high-spirited antics hugely enjoyable and believing them to be virtuous, they’re unlikely to have anything like the impact of a global financial squeeze on fuel supply and demand, consumer unwillingness to spend on air travel and severe economic constraints on future development.

And having been responsible for the cancellation of 21 flights, the shattered business and personal plans of countless passengers and airport workers, they’d be plain stupid to think they have won many converts to their cause.

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