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Plane Stupid

Plane Stupid is Britain's first national direct action campaign group opposing the growth in aviatio

About Me


Aviation is the fastest growing cause of climate change and a major threat to the earth and everything on it.

But rather than reining the industry in and trying to reduce demand for flying, the government is promoting it through tax breaks and through its plans for massive expansion: the equivalent of a new Heathrow every five years.

Plane Stupid demands a fundamental rethink of the government's 2003 Aviation White Paper which predicts that air travel will treble by 2030: an increase in annual plane journeys from 180 million to 501 million.

We want to see airport expansion plans scrapped, a tax on aviation fuel, and and plane tickets, and an end to short haul flights.

www.planestupid.com

My Interests

Shutting down airports and taking direct action against airport expansion and short haul flights.

My Blog

Newsletter 8

Plane Stupid Newsletter 8 "We cannot stop climate change without stopping airport expansion," This is arrant flat-earth nonsense." The Times, August 2nd 2007"The eco-warriors of Heathrow are right ...
Posted by Plane Stupid on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:35:00 PST

Newsletter #7

ANGRY HEATHROW RESIDENTS AND PLANE STUPID DISRUPT MINISTER'S SPEECH-In February, Londoners facing house demolitions and increased noisefrom government plans for expansion of Heathrow took direct actio...
Posted by Plane Stupid on Thu, 24 May 2007 05:06:00 PST

New Videos

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Posted by Plane Stupid on Thu, 24 May 2007 04:59:00 PST

BAA shutdown

On Wednesday 2nd May activists marked the tenth anniversary of Tony Blair coming to power by visiting his best friends in industry to highlight the revolving door between Labour and the aviation indus...
Posted by Plane Stupid on Sat, 12 May 2007 08:06:00 PST

Airlines v the Government? Hardly.

If their spokesmen are to be believed, the Government is gearing up for a fight with the aviation industry's biggest players. It's getting ready to tackle the issue of aviation emissions, across not j...
Posted by Plane Stupid on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:11:00 PST

Court Rejects ASBOs for Anti-Airport Activists

Loughborough Magistrates Court rejected calls from the Crown Prosecution Service to slap ASBOs on the 24 Plane Stupid activists that they described as, "highly organised extremists" who were arrested ...
Posted by Plane Stupid on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 04:45:00 PST

Newsletter 6

"This is a deeply traumatized community which has been lied to for years and years by the aviation industry and one political party after another. There is a litany of broken promises. I wonder just h...
Posted by Plane Stupid on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 07:47:00 PST

The Armchair Environmentalist's Guide to Off-Setting

As part of the on-going project to defeat the greatest threat mankind has ever faced without actually doing anything, Plane Stupid presents..,The Armchair Environmentalist's Guide to Off-Setting!First...
Posted by Plane Stupid on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:20:00 PST

Plane Stupid - a year in review

In a year, Plane Stupid has become one of the direct action groups of the emerging grassroots climate movement in Britain. Our dramatic impact has come by means of a series of high-profile direct acti...
Posted by Plane Stupid on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 07:20:00 PST