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ACTION OPEN: Sign the pledge to oppose airport expansion |
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 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. It wants to expand almost every
airport in Britain and build huge new concrete runways across green
fields at Stansted, Birmingham, Heathrow and Edinburgh. The communities
around the airports will be blighted by the noise and air pollution.
The government is ignoring its own advisors - the Royal Commission
on Environmental Pollution, the Environmental Audit Committee, and the
Sustainable Development Commission - who are all saying that this is a
dangerous and destructive policy.
The Airport Pledge shows the government the real threat it faces
from the large number of people opposing this policy. The people who
sign it say that if the government refuses to back away from its
expansion policy, they will take personal action to block airport
expansion and to prevent companies from supporting and funding it. What
action people take is their personal choice but the pledge helps them
with updates and ideas of what they can do.
It is a petition with a difference - it contains the real threat
that the people who sign it will be active and determined. The groups
behind the pledge believe that if enough people join the pledge, the
risks of large scale opposition will force the government to reconsider
its plans.
The pledge is managed by a broad coalition of environment and
transport groups including the Green Party, Greenpeace, Friends of the
Earth, People & Planet, and Transport 2000. The pledge is hosted by
the climate change campaign network, Rising Tide.
You can visit the pledge at www.airportpledge.org.uk
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