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| Green Party website |
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The Green Party is committed to a green future based on a sustainable existence for humans on this planet. No other Party has the foresight to look to the longer term for the future of mankind. |
Living in Southampton, our local branch is The South West Hampshire Green Party. Visit their website to attend meetings and have your voice heard. | ||
| SIGN THE PLEDGE OF OPPOSITION TO AIRPORT EXPANSION Read my Pledge to confront Airport Expansion |
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The government says it wants to take action against climate change but also plans to double air travel - the most environmentally damaging form of transport - over the next twenty years. It wants to expand almost every airport in Britain and build huge new concrete runways across green fields at Stansted, Birmingham, Heathrow and Edinburgh. The communities around the airports will be blighted by the noise and air pollution. The government is ignoring its own advisors - the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, the Environmental Audit Committee, and the Sustainable Development Commission - who are all saying that this is a dangerous and destructive policy. The Airport Pledge shows the government the real threat it faces from the large number of people opposing this policy. The people who sign it say that if the government refuses to back away from its expansion policy, they will take personal action to block airport expansion and to prevent companies from supporting and funding it. What action people take is their personal choice but the pledge helps them with updates and ideas of what they can do. It is a petition with a difference - it contains the real threat that the people who sign it will be active and determined. The groups behind the pledge believe that if enough people join the pledge, the risks of large-scale opposition will force the government to reconsider its plans. The pledge is managed by a broad coalition of environment and transport groups including: The pledge is hosted by the climate change campaign network, Rising Tide.You can visit the pledge at www.airportpledge.org.uk Don't fly! Airport expansion is only the symptom - the cause is people's insatiable appetite for jet travel. Jet travel is terrible for climate change: not only do planes use a lot of fuel, but the altitude at which they fly triples their impact on climate change. You can work out the real impact of any flight at ChooseClimate.org We need to reduce the demand for flying and we can start with ourselves. We need to tell people with pride that we take holidays close to home and that we travel by train. People who fly for their work can campaign for train travel and teleconferencing. | |