We've been busy building an allotment on the Airplot, and today Richard Briers came to help us open it and declare the third runway plans "lunacy".
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Good for Greenpeace and Richard Briers in taking the action they have.All to often we see that greed and profit is put before the very survival of the planet.why is it that people find it necessary to find speedier ways to travel around the world.If they would only slow down a bit they would learn much more and see much more.To day I have signed up to join the Airplot.
Seriously, whoever has a thing against airport expansion is just stupid. Whoever wants to break into an airport and protest wants locking up, and charged with acts of terrorism. The latest stunt of breaking into london city airport was a mistake because if it was my plane I would have just ran them over. Im sorry they're my views and they need to be said.
Stupid, huh? Hmm yes, that would be why Sir Nicholas Stern, author of the government commissioned Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change, recently launched a savage attack on Heathrow's expansion, which he claimed does not "make sense in the context of a coherent carbon and transport policy for the UK, and... for Europe as a whole".
According to Stern, the third runway decision should only have been taken once the Committee on Climate Change had had a chance to look into the detail.
But at least business is solidly behind Heathrow expansion, isn't it? Not at all - the chiefs of B&Q, Carphone Warehouse; J Sainsbury; BSkyB and even News Corporation recently wrote to the government to question whether the runway is necessary: "If all the data and all the arguments are coming from someone who has a self-interest in building it, that can't really be a balanced debate," they concluded - a comment on the fact that the main impetus for R3 is coming from BA and BAA.
Basically we can't keep expanding aviation (and remember 20 other airports round the country will pursue expansion plans if Heathrow gets the go-ahead) and have any realistic chance of tackling climate change. These guys are hard-headed corporate operators who now understand this fact - are they suddenly now "stupid" because they disagree with your simple-minded (and obviously from your username) self-interested assessment?
Good for Greenpeace and Richard Briers in taking the action they have.All to often we see that greed and profit is put before the very survival of the planet.why is it that people find it necessary to find speedier ways to travel around the world.If they would only slow down a bit they would learn much more and see much more.To day I have signed up to join the Airplot.
Seriously, whoever has a thing against airport expansion is just stupid. Whoever wants to break into an airport and protest wants locking up, and charged with acts of terrorism. The latest stunt of breaking into london city airport was a mistake because if it was my plane I would have just ran them over. Im sorry they're my views and they need to be said.
