“That is why we need an aviation justice movement.”
CommunityAIR is pleased to invite you to participate in a meeting with Britain’s [in]famous Dan Glass, of Plane Stupid
This Thursday Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. at Windward Co-op(on the west side of Little Norway Park, 34 Little Norway Crescent. South of Queen’s Quay, west of Bathurst.) Here’s a link to its location (marked 
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Dan Glass is the UK climate activist who superglued himself to British PM Gordon Brown. More importantly, he was, with many others, central to a campaign that built an impressively broad coalition (from Plane Stupid to Conservative MPs), and successfully stopped the third runway at Heathrow. Here’s the amazing story, at http://aviationjustice.org/
If you’re able to meet and scheme with Dan Glass and other anti-airport expansion activists, please let us know you can come.
Here’s what “Aviation Justice” means:
The way aviation currently operates is deeply unjust. Aviation contributes 5% of global emissions. Its emissions are rising faster than just about any other sector. Yet only 5% of the world’s population has ever flown. It is largely the rich world that is producing these emissions but it is the poor world that is being hit first, and most acutely, by climate change. That is deeply unjust.
“It is also deeply unjust to people living under flight paths. The authorities are cynical about it. Concentrate ever more planes on narrow flight paths to enable a growing number of people to jet off on subsidized holidays or to allow business to become over-dependent on air travel. Throw a few crumbs of comfort to the people in the noise ghettos, even though, for many in these noise ghettos there is no chance of escape for reason of personal circumstance, age, income or disability etc. Deeply cynical. Deeply unjust.
“That is why we need an aviation justice movement.”
Please pass this onto anyone that you think may be interested.
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