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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| 384 | Philip Stewart | We should aim for airport contraction, not expansion, and aviation fuel should be fully taxed. Surface transport is far less polluting, and for shorter distances it is also quicker, city centre to city centre. I pledge not to fly for distances of less than 500 kilometres and to fly between continents only in exceptional circumstances. |
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| 383 | fran | i feel the government is being totally duplicitous, claiming to be concerned about the environment when in fact it is supporting one of the fastest growing souces of carbon dioxide emissisons - air travel - by expanding airports and refusing to put tax on aviation fuel. something has to be done to convince the public that flying is not a right, it is a luxury which is having a devastating effect on the environment. it is not impossible to stop flying, in fact, for anyone concerned about the state of our environment it is the only possible choice. |
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| 382 | Simon Erskine | I am against airport expansion because I believe that the growth in air traffic is a key factor in the acceleration of global warming. |
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| 381 | Hugh Norris | I must most strongly oppose the airport expansion plans of a government which has often stated that pollution and global warming are some of the biggest problems facing Britain. |
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| 380 | Helen Miller | I will not travel by plane. I had my last holiday in Italy and enjoyed travelling by train. I do not support airport expansions and think they create more noise and air pollution |
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| 379 | Chris Gillham | I sometimes use aeroplanes, but believe that they massively externalise their costs and should be very heavily taxed to cover those costs (though perhaps climate change costs are non-computable). The demand for airport expansion is based on projected demands for heavily subsidised air travel. If airlines (we) had to pay the true costs of their (our) activity, there would be a reduction in demand, not a growth. |
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| 378 | Steve Allanson | My family do not use airplanes to take holidays. This is anyway not compatible with a sustainable lifestyle running our own smallholding. My only concern is that much of the local protest about airport expansion is in fact Nimbyism of the worst kind - with the local protesters continuing to expand their travel using airports not local to them. International holidays several times a year are one of the worst examples of our unsustainable lifestyle. We do not need more airports - instead we need more local resources for local people. |
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| 377 | Marcus Christo | How many more miles of tarmac? We need to be acting locally and working loacally not creating over gloabalisation at the cost of the planet- people and rescources. |
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| 376 | Marilyn Harrison | We must all do are bit to help the planet. |
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| 375 | Smooth | The government can't be allowed to get away with airport expansion when air travel if so catastrophically damging to the environment. To pledge personal action is the least we can do. |
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