Heathrow Airport Climate Protest Commences via Earth Blog
A climate change protest camp has been set up outside Heathrow airport in the United Kingdom, and thousand of protesters are expected at the "Camp for Climate Action" which will highlight the link between aviation and global warming [search]. Current and projected growth in air travel is clearly not environmentally sustainable. Aviation accounts for a relatively small,but rapidly growing component of global greenhouse gas emissions, and is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. There is some evidence that by depositing these pollutants high in the atmosphere further damage is done. This sort of large civil disobedience is precisely what is needed now at a large scale against airports, SUVs, coal power, the oil industry, flacid governments and numerous other...