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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| 412 | Pete Watkins | The drive for more airports directly contradicts goverment targets to reduce CO2 emissions |
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| 411 | John Lancaster | Government is operating an outdated and discredited policy of "predict and provide" in favour of air travel. Air travel is currently only so cheap and popular because it is not fully paying the cost of the environmental damage it causes. Substantial tax on aviation fuel would be a good start with the proceeds invested in sustainable transport initiatives. |
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| 410 | Jimbo and the Jet Set | End unnecessary air travel - which is pretty much all air travel. End destruction of communities by noise and air pollution from airport expansion |
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| 409 | Jo Melzack | Cheap air travel is a massive contributor to climate change. The government cannot on the one hand commit to reducing CO2 emissions and on the other support airport expansion - it's time for real positive action to increase investment in development of less polluting forms of transport. |
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| 408 | Chris Lang | No more airport expansions! |
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| 407 | Lyn Brayshaw | We should all look after the planet and do all we can to protect it |
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| 406 | Dr K Tai | Reforming the economics of aviation should be on the top of the political agenda. |
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| 405 | Rachel | A huge amount of airport use is to transport consumer products back and forth across the world, including the food we eat. Much of this import/export is completely needless and wasteful - perhaps instead of expanding transport infrastucture to accommodate this and allow it to increase, the government should be looking more closely at the whole system, and finding ways of reducing the endless imports/exports, particularly of food - i.e. by encouraging localisation of the economy, so that more and more of our needs are met closer to home. |
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| 404 | Ella | We need to s-l-o-w down a bit... |
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| 403 | Meinhard Benn | Airplanes emit up to ten times more CO2 per person per kilometer than a car does. I think this is reason enough to have a critical review on how we use airplanes at the moment. |
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