Climate Activist Glues Herself To The Front Door Of Leeds Bradford Airport

18th May: A woman cli­mate activist blocked the entrance to Leeds/Bradford Air­port today, by super­glu­ing her­self in front of the revolv­ing door. The protest was against gov­ern­men­t’s fail­ure to curb the growth in air trav­el, in spite of the fact that it is the fastest grow­ing source of CO2 emis­sions from the Unit­ed King­dom.

18th May: A woman cli­mate activist blocked the entrance to Leeds/Bradford Air­port today, by super­glu­ing her­self in front of the revolv­ing door. The protest was against gov­ern­men­t’s fail­ure to curb the growth in air trav­el, in spite of the fact that it is the fastest grow­ing source of CO2 emis­sions from the Unit­ed King­dom.

The activist hand­ed the fol­low­ing state­ment to mem­bers of the pub­lic and air­port staff:-

“This is a peace­ful act of civ­il dis­obe­di­ence. It is my inten­tion to dis­rupt the nor­mal work­ing of this air­port because it is an envi­ron­men­tal haz­ard. In so doing, I am stand­ing up for the poor­est of the world’s peo­ple, and for future gen­er­a­tions, who will bear the brunt of cli­mate chaos, caused by the afflu­ent lifestyles and fos­sil fuel addic­tion of the rich.

The planned three­fold increase in air flights is envi­ron­men­tal luna­cy. If run­away cli­mate change is to be avert­ed, glob­al car­bon emis­sions need to peak this decade, and decline rapid­ly there­after. There is no way that this can be achieved with­out halt­ing the explo­sion in air trav­el. Leeds/Bradford Air­port is plan­ning to expand to 8million flights a year, and if the pub­lic author­i­ties refuse to curb this envi­ron­men­tal men­ace, then respon­si­ble local cit­i­zens must act.

I AM SUPERGLUED IN POSITION PLEASE DO NOT HURT ME BY ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE ME!

I am not a ter­ror­ist. The real ter­ror­ists are the peo­ple who are destroy­ing the plan­et for prof­it.”

The activist was in posi­tion for about an hour, giv­ing her plen­ty of oppor­tu­ni­ty to edu­cate those going in and out of the air­port. The police again showed a remark­able tol­er­ance for the crimes of Leeds Brad­ford air­port by arrest­ing the activist and stop­ping her from per­form­ng this vital pub­lic ser­vice. What are they like?

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