Posted on 01/28/2024 9:29:14 PM PST by nickcarraway
With many major airlines now committed to sustainability and ‘green’ fuels, a protest at one of the UK’s airports focused on private jets.
On Saturday, January 27, Greta Thunberg, the 21-year-old Swedish environmental activist, took a stand against the increasing use of private jets, joining forces with Extinction Rebellion at Farnborough Airport.
The demonstration took place in the morning with the airport brimming with protesters, objecting to the proposed 40 per cent rise in annual flight numbers.
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Finance Roundup for Spain and the UK Rising tensions over airport expansion The protest, sparked by Farnborough Airport’s application to double its weekend flight capacity, drew a sizable crowd into the town centre, marching with banners that proclaimed ‘Stop Private Flights Now’ and ‘Flying to Extinction.’
This application follows a significant increase in flight activity at the airport, with Extinction Rebellion highlighting a 27 per cent jump in flights in 2022 compared to the previous year.
Impact of private jets on the climate Thunberg’s criticism of private jet usage in times of climate crisis was stark: ‘The fact that using private jets is both legally & socially allowed in an escalating climate emergency is completely detached from reality.’
She emphasised the elite’s role in jeopardising current and future living standards on the planet for their ‘extreme and violent lifestyles.’
The airport, primarily serving business purposes, has been shown to operate with just 2.5 passengers per flight on average, with 40 per cent of flights being empty, as reported by the campaign group Possible.
Todd Smith, a former airline pilot and spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion, expressed his dismay: ‘Flying is the fastest way to fry the planet, and private jets are the most polluting way to fly.
‘Surely it’s a no brainer to ban private jets and stop expanding these luxury airports in the midst of a climate crisis?’
He highlighted the increasing disparity between the lives of the wealthy and ordinary people, struggling with rising living costs. The airport’s persistent expansion plans, despite previous protests, seemingly underline the unequal societal rules.
It must be very difficult for her, now that her fifteen minutes are up.
Hitch a ride on a Red Chinese recon balloon. Biden has the schedules.
“F” in “hypocrit” for those in lower Sinshiem.
Uh-oh!
The little wind-up doll has turned against her masters.
Is it just rumor that this brat is a Rothschild?
Has anyone ever followed her home to see where she lives? Is she secreting away to some plush home or an off the grid, no fossil fuels anywhere, cabin in the woods ?
Funny. Did she not just get an honored position at the podium at Davos - where over 2700 private jets dropped off their rich passengers one at a time?
She’s about to get the Cindy Sheehan treatment and disappear from the news just like Sheehan was forgotten when she continued protesting the Iraq War after Obama became President and was CIC.
I shouldn’t but I’d pay $1 to watch a show where Greta Thunberg protests one of Al Gore’s private jets while it sits empty on a tarmac
And then Al Gore has to defend using his private jet
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We shouldn't be in nation-building business.
We should do it like Operation Just Cause and Operation Desert Storm.
Kick @$$ and then leave.
I trust she paddled or sailed a boat to England from Sweden so as not contribute hydrocarbons to the atmosphere ... and held her breath along the way.
What? No fake arrest? The show isnt complete without a fake arrest
I want to see Greta and john fing kerry in the octagon!!
I agree. I fell for the neo-con BS and even with McCain in 2008 thought there was a difference in parties. There isn’t. They accomplish little in both parties other than enriching themselves and their corporate donors as the small businesses suffer.
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