Actress Emma Thompson Flies 5400 miles to Join Anti-Airport Climate Protest

Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson at the premiere of The Love Punch at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. By Justin Harris – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Link

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

Actress Emma Thompson flew from LA to London, to give her support to protests demanding the end of mass air travel.

Police told to use ‘full force’ of law against Heathrow climate change protesters

Heathrow is “working with the authorities” to address any protests which could “disrupt the airport”.

By Ceren Senkul, news reporter 
Friday 19 April 2019 07:06, UK

Police have been given the green light by the home secretary to use the “full force of the law” against climate change protesters who are planning to disrupt Heathrow airport

Extinction Rebellion has been holding demonstrations over several days in key parts of London in order to get the government to take action on the “unprecedented global emergency”.

Actress Emma Thompson joined the protests in London after taking a 5,400-mile flight from Los Angeles in the US.

She said: “I absolutely wanted to be arrested on my 60th birthday but I didn’t quite manage that.

I’m so proud and thrilled to be part of Extinction Rebellion.”

Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/police-told-to-use-full-force-of-law-against-heathrow-climate-change-protesters-11697820

Flying 5,400 miles to join an anti-flying climate protest.

The message couldn’t be clearer. People like Emma Thompson don’t want to shut down all air travel, they just want to shut down YOUR right to travel by air.

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Donald Boughton
April 20, 2019 8:42 am

Emma Thompson, another aging thespian with a fading career trying to remain in the public’s eye by latching onto a demonstration that is in the news.

Vuk
April 20, 2019 9:17 am

From today’s Times
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TG McCoy
April 20, 2019 9:19 am

So she didin’t take a month or so and arrive by clipper ship at he London docks?

Goldrider
April 20, 2019 9:31 am

Memo to Hollywood: About 99% of us don’t see your bubble-headed bimbos as “thought leaders.” I don’t know who’s paying these professional clowns to act out, but by their very actions they call the entire “movement” into question. Thankfully!

The further this peformative hysteria ramps up, the more CAGW as a political tool is discredited worldwide.

climatebeagle
April 20, 2019 9:52 am

She does like to travel, spends half the year in Scotland, trip to the Arctic, file premiere in New York, trips to LA, …

Do as I say, not as I do …

Albert
April 20, 2019 10:36 am

Well, she went by train to Davos, so maybe she’ll do the same to London.

PeterGB
April 20, 2019 10:38 am

Actors make a living by reading words written by people who are cleverer than they are. Now they are doing it in their spare time as well. Their love of the public adoration while they virtue signal negates their ability to detect that they are being used.

BCBill
April 20, 2019 11:10 am

Am I the only one here who never heard of Emma Thompson until she started saying things that were extraordinarily stupid even for an actress? I suppose that is one way for a fading star to extend its life?

On the outer Barcoo
April 20, 2019 12:18 pm

Who in their right mind would believe anything uttered by someone who is paid a lot of money to pretend to be somebody else?

D Cage
April 20, 2019 12:35 pm

…..The message couldn’t be clearer. People like Emma Thompson don’t want to shut down all air travel, they just want to shut down YOUR right to travel by air……
On the contrary if you read more the message is much more complex. It says to travel by air you must justify it by owning large amounts of land to plant trees or produce renewable energy. For this you collect huge subsidies from the poor or middling income citizens so they actually pay the extra cost of air travel after the medieval indulgences to the cult church of climate change have been paid. She does not just want to have the right to travel when you do not, she is demanding as of right being a landowner that we all pay the extra costs of that policy for her to carry on as normal while we live in suffer a feudal lifestyle restricted to walking range of your birthplace.

April 20, 2019 3:13 pm

It really does not get any stupider than this.

old construction worker
April 20, 2019 3:14 pm

‘Actress Emma Thompson flew from LA to London, to give her support to protests demanding the end of mass air travel.’ and I agree with this: ‘People like Emma Thompson don’t want to shut down all air travel, they just want to shut down YOUR right to travel by air.’ People like Emma Thompson are saying “Let them eat cake”.

JimG1
April 20, 2019 3:41 pm

Actress Emma Thompson, never heard of her, so who really cares what she says or does.

Photios
April 21, 2019 12:29 am

Dame Emma Thompson flew 5,400 miles ‘by aeroplane, not unicorn’
from LA to London to protest against mass air travel, that is:
against air travel for the masses – which (obviously) does not include a Dame.
Jings! Whit an actress…

BruceC
April 21, 2019 1:15 am

Did she fly home or swim? (10,908 miles – 17,556km return).

Toto
April 21, 2019 10:51 am

Emma Thompson has a daughter named Gaia. Gaia Romilly Wise. born December 4, 1999.
Also an actor.

“Gaia has an older brother named Tindyebwa Agaba Wise. Tindyebwa, a former child soldier from Rwanda, was adopted by Emma Thompson when he was 16 years old.”
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/gaia-wise-42955.php

Whatever the cause, Emma is all in. Nothing I could find about any science background though.