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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| 288 | Johnny Dixon | This must stop - expanding airports is simply not on, we should be looking at stricter controls. I lived for four years in a council in Loughborough Junction, London SW9 which was under the flight path of planes to Heathrow. Planes began to arrive from 4.30 *every* morning. If the clouds were low, I woke up. Weeks went by without me getting more than 5 hours sleep. I would not wish such torment on my worst enemy. (I was lucky eventually to be able to move away, it is economic housing and others are not and will not be so fortunate.) Airport expansion means increasing the misery for more people. |
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| 287 | A few miles from an airport | I have long been appalled at the way that air travel has been allowed to proceed as much as it has, without any tax disincentives, with all the pollution that each flight contributes. To expand airports means that the air will be even more polluted, the areas for miles around airports will be destroyed and will become traffic polluters in themselves to accommodate people and goods being transported by air. We really should accept that the skies have reached saturation point and we cannot just keep on adding to it. |
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| 286 | Adam | Given the huge amount of pollution flying already causes and the amount of fuel it uses, versus the relatively few people that actually get to in any way benefit in any case, it seems at best irresponsible to develop even more. Spend more money on more useful, less polluting, more pleasant public transport and developing more clean, renewable methods of fuelling transport. |
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| 285 | Anne N. | I am opposed to airport expansion, which is catastrophic for the local and global environment and unnecessary. Air travel should be competitive with other forms of transport and should not be encouraged by cut-throat, cut-price inducemtnts. |
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| 284 | Peter Sanderson | At a time when the environmental and military effects of oil dependance are clear for all to see, it is insane to have more airport expansion. Let's stop it! |
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| 283 | jjd | It's simple, climate change is the biggest threat mankind has ever faced. You cannot claim to combat it and expand airports at the same time. |
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| 282 | Sandra | Increasing air travel still further is not an option, for the sake of the environment, and of people living near airports. I won't stand by and watch the government allow it. |
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| 281 | James Humphreys | Planned airport expansion is incompatible with a sustainable future. |
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| 280 | Antony Melville | It is a serious matter when a government committed to the reduction of greenhouse gases blindly sets out to buy votes by giving in to the air travel lobby. Planning for increased air travel is planning for a dead end � either the investment will be wasted because demand drops, or the increased travel will cause so much air pollution and noise pollution and loss of land to concrete, that we cannot live a full healthy life at home in our country. I will join and support resistance to airport expansion by all non-violent means. |
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| 279 | Geoff Sheridan | Fly less, drive less, love the planet you're on. |
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