Protesters invade the Aviation Emissions Trading Summit 2007

22.11.2007
For imme­di­ate release:
Pro­test­ers invade the Avi­a­tion Emis­sions Trad­ing Sum­mit 2007.

— video and pho­tos to fol­low lat­er today.

Lon­don Ris­ing Tide today inter­rupt­ed del­e­gates at the , held at Sel­f­ridges Hotel, cen­tral Lon­don. They inter­rupt­ed pro­ceed­ings with an impromp­tu speech and pre­sen­ta­tion, of a box of atmos­phere. Free shares for pre Emis­sions Trad­ing Scheme atmos­phere were also giv­en out to each del­e­gate at the con­fer­ence.

Pro­test­ers from Lon­don Ris­ing Tide were at the con­fer­ence today to high­light the huge risk of accel­er­at­ed cli­mate change through flights.

This scheme will allow the indus­try to claim envi­ron­men­tal cre­den­tials when in fact stop­ping air­port expan­sion and reduc­ing flights is what is required. The fact that these per­mits will be auc­tioned at a bar­gain price will fur­ther add to the lack of impact that this scheme will have on the avi­a­tion indus­try.

ETS is an easy way for the super pol­lut­ing avi­a­tion indus­try to cov­er them­selves with green­wash.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion con­tact
http://www.londonrisingtide.org.uk/
07708 794665

The back of the shares to the atmos­phere read:
We here­by grant you the right to make great per­son­al prof­it from the destruc­tion of the human race of which you are a part and from who’s exis­tence and mis­for­tune you have ben­e­fit­ed great­ly.

We grant you the right to own the air that we breath and to fill it with car­cino­gens and green house gasses.

If our gov­ern­ment does not sub­sidise you with a suf­fi­cient vol­ume of the air in which to store your pol­lu­tants, we grant you the right to buy farm­ing land and nat­ur­al for­est habi­tats from less for­tu­nate peo­ples, to evict them from their homes and to replace them with mono­cul­ture plan­ta­tions of euca­lyp­tus and man­go. We grant you the good for­tune to be too busy mak­ing mon­ey to find out about the con­se­quences of your actions for your fel­low human beings.

We grant you the right to avoid at all costs the invest­ment of your hard earned mon­ey into tech­nolo­gies free from fos­sil fuels. We rec­om­mend you spend lav­ish­ly to lob­by gov­ern­ment and do not get ahead of the game and out­smart your peers instead by devel­op­ing safe, car­bon-free meth­ods of trans­port.

May you for­ev­er con­tin­ue to blame your peers, your share­hold­ers, the pas­sen­gers, for the deci­sions you play your part in enact­ing. May you nev­er think to reduce your flights, to take a pos­i­tive action, to play your part in avert­ing dis­as­ter for your fel­low beings.

Car­bon Trad­ing. Not a way to tack­le cli­mate change.

www.risingtide.org.uk