Pledge Against Airport Expansion
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Below is the name and personal statement of opposition to airport expansion of everyone who has signed the pledge.
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| 348 | Rich | I oppose the government's plans for airport expansion because I believe it can only have a negative effect on the environment. I believe the hypocrisy that Blair is serious about tackling global warming yet supports airport exspansion is wrong. I pledge to take personal action to stop airport exspansion. |
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| 347 | Dr Lars Mosesson | As someone who uses most forms of transport - from feet and bicycle to aeroplanes (about once every five years, on average), I believe in the use of appropriate transport. Subsidised air-transport is neither appropriate for most of its current and proposed purposes, nor sustainable. Apart from the appalling damage it does to the environment, it is subsidised by the lack of taxation and the "free" provision of local intrastructure around airports. Building ever-more runways will not cure any problems beyond the short term, any more than the M25 has. This type of expansion is the wrong solution to the wrong problem. By the time these extensions are operating, supplies of oil will be declining, and the use of this type of inefficient carbon-based transport will be obsolescent. It would be good to see the revenue from the tax on the fuel for all international flights going directly to the UN. |
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| 346 | zac millar | The longevity of the planet earth, is of far more immediate,importance than the expansion of airports.It's time, the peoples of this beautiful planet earth, took our stewardship of it,back into the hands of the majority of its citizens.We can live without profits, but we cannot live without her fresh-air or water. |
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| 345 | Nigel | This airport expansion is in nobodies longterm intrerests, so why do it?. |
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| 344 | Scott | Stopping gov. subsidies to the aviation industry and start taxing aviation fuel. The cost of air travel would increase to its true level. |
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| 343 | Julie Dawe | We have to understand that now is the time to act against further environmental degradation - and even now it may be too late. The consequences are too severe to contemplate - we neeed to stop putting spurious economic growth before essential environmental action. |
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| 342 | Howard W Berry | The government says it wants to take action against climate change but also plans to double air travel � the most damaging form of transport - over the next twenty years. This is why I am opposed to airport expansion. |
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| 341 | GK | Air travel/aviation fuel is a serious pollution contributor, it needs to be curtailed. Airports are sprawling eyesores, eating into our countryside |
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| 340 | Pauline Hocking | Global warming is affecting the human race and all other species on the planet now. There has never been a greater threat to both human survival and, if there is runaway global warming, to all life on the planet. To consider airport expansion, given this scenario, is not just backward, it is insane. Anyone with courage, a brain and a heart should oppose it. |
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| 339 | Peter Gray | The increase in air travel is unnecessary and unsustainable. I will take action to reduce further proliferation of air travel. |
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