When you take a flight you are participating in a geoengineering project. Every flight is like a small drip that wears away the stone of our stable climate.
We will protest outside all of the major airports to educate and shame those that make poor choices, jeopardizing the future of billions.
Aviation is widely recognised as both one of the most carbon-intensive forms of transport and one of the most difficult to decarbonise. This means that aviation could well be the largest contributor to UK greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, particularly if demand continues to grow.
We have people who binge fly and are completely nonchalant about the effects they have on the worlds poorest communities. These frequent flyers who bear responsibility for contributing towards the estimated 150’000 to 400’000 climate related deaths per year particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. This also contributes towards climate refugees who use our country as a life boat as Sir James Lovelock predicted in his Gaia books.
Every other sector of the economy is rightly being expected to become greener and reduce emissions in absolute terms, the aviation industry seems to slip through the net every time. Not only are there not enough effective targets for aviation in the UK’s Climate Change Act. One of the few solutions is the use of discredited offsetting schemes which deflect responsibility to other sectors of the economy. This ‘light-touch’ approach may be frustrating for climate campaigners but is hardly surprising when the oil and aviation industry and government are so close to one another, with staff often switching between the two during the course of their careers.
What can we do?
