Bradford Climate Criminals flyposted

22.1.07
On Wednes­day evening, a num­ber of con­cerned Leeds and Brad­ford res­i­dents decid­ed to draw atten­tion to the activ­i­ties of a num­ber of cli­mate crim­i­nals in Brad­ford city cen­tre. Adver­tise­ments for dam­ag­ing air flights were mod­i­fied to tell the truth; that fly­ing is the fastest grow­ing cause of cli­mate change, the “sin­gle great­est threat to human-kind” accord­ing to the government’s chief sci­en­tist.

Bradford climate camp aviation flyposters22.1.07
On Wednes­day evening, a num­ber of con­cerned Leeds and Brad­ford res­i­dents decid­ed to draw atten­tion to the activ­i­ties of a num­ber of cli­mate crim­i­nals in Brad­ford city cen­tre. Adver­tise­ments for dam­ag­ing air flights were mod­i­fied to tell the truth; that fly­ing is the fastest grow­ing cause of cli­mate change, the “sin­gle great­est threat to human-kind” accord­ing to the government’s chief sci­en­tist.

Despite assur­ances that cli­mate change is being tak­en seri­ous­ly by any num­ber of politi­cians or busi­ness peo­ple, the fact is that new run­ways are planned, motor­ways are being expand­ed, and pipelines being built to increase our depen­dence on fos­sil fuels. In the face of this hypocrisy, it was clear that the time had come to make a direct state­ment that irre­spon­si­ble crim­i­nal­i­ty of this kind will not be tol­er­at­ed by sane and mod­er­ate peo­ple.

Sev­er­al trav­el agents, shame­less­ly plug­ging mas­sive­ly destruc­tive air flights for prof­it, had their mis­lead­ing win­dow dis­plays obscured by handy stick­ers which made plain the true cost of fly­ing. Those peo­ple tak­ing part in this vital ser­vice did so as a way of encour­ag­ing oth­ers to stand up against the cli­mate crim­i­nals and car­ry out sim­i­lar pub­lic-spir­it­ed actions in their areas. The stick­ers used are avail­able at a cost of 50p each to any­one who wants them – just email trees@riseup.net with your order. The stick­ers are just £10 for 20, post free!

There is still time to pre­vent run­away cli­mate change but we must act now.

Part of that action must be to expose the ongo­ing activites of those who wish to destroy the plan­et for prof­it. Clear­ly, we can’t leave it to busi­ness and gov­ern­ment to sort out the mess – they are the ones mak­ing it because of their bizarre obses­sion with an eco­nom­ic sys­tem based on con­tin­u­al growth and unsus­tain­able con­sump­tion.

The rich are plun­der­ing the Earth, and as always the poor will suf­fer the worst. We can all act in our lives, and join togeth­er to cre­ate a rad­i­cal, and ulti­mate­ly rea­son­able and mod­er­ate, move­ment for social change and cli­mate jus­tice.

This action was inspired by the Camp For Cli­mate Action, which seems to have been a new begin­ning for the fight-back by rea­son­able and mod­er­ate peo­ple against the cli­mate crim­i­nals and prof­it-ter­ror­ists who seek to kill us all.