Essay by Eric Worrall
Letzte Generation Climate hypocrites should try cutting back on their personal fossil fuel use, before they demand other people abandon fossil fuel.
Germany: Climate activists cause flight delays, cancelations
Last Generation activists hindered operations at airports in Hamburg and Düsseldorf. Some were reported to have glued themselves to areas near runways.
“Last Generation” climate activists on Thursday blockaded airports in the German cities of Hamburg and Düsseldorf, causing major disruption to flights.
Activists said they had cut through fences at both airports and that several people had glued themselves to the ground in the runway areas.
The protesters said their actions aim to highlight the rising numbers of plane passengers, which are causing increasing climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions in the aviation sector.
“Instead of presenting a concrete plan to prevent this and to reach the emissions-reduction target called for by law, the Transport Ministry is relying on ‘technological flexibility,'” the group stated.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser pledged new security measures in light of the delays, saying that “there will soon be actual standards for operators of critical infrastructure.”
“This also includes airports, and this will continue to lead to special security at airports,” she added.
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Read more: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-climate-activists-cause-flight-delays-cancelations/a-66208241
How can anyone take climate hypocrites like Last Generation, Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil seriously? Are they really so stupid they don’t realise the clothes most of them wear, the glue they use, and the banners they carry, are mostly the products of fossil fuels? Maybe they don’t think their personal hypocrisy matters?
Climate activists, if you want us to take your demands we abandon fossil fuel seriously, try cutting back on your personal use of fossil fuel.
I wonder what would happen if they simply closed the runway and left the protestors glued to the runway? How long would they last? I don’t know, but I’m sure it would drastically cut down on copycat performances!
The problem would come when body parts got sucked into jet engines. That damages the compressors, putting the airplane out of service, and costing six figures to repair.
Someone suggested using the airport snow plows to remove the protestors. That would have to be followed by a walk-through to remove anything left behind.
Two words: corporal punishment
No one takes the climate protesters seriously. That’s the plan of extremism. What it is meant to do is to dull your response and reaction so that non extreme measures that were unthinkable previously now seem normal. It is a psychological ploy and it works. That’s why we have useful idiots assembled in groups. Think about that. Idiots don’t assemble themselves, they are idiots.
I hope that for once, they are at least charged for the damages they do.
That cut fence will have to be repaired and waiting aircraft are going to end up burning a lot of extra gas.
Why not do something useful like mine clearing on the Russian front to help Ukraine.
It’s nothing a snowplow can’t fix
Method in madness – these clowns know with the new superglue the pavement, or runway itself must be cut up to free them, Imagine what it costs to repair such runway holes!!
And to think they delayed the new Berlin BER airport for 25 years!
Will they resort to NordStreaming as their NATO bosses like to do?
Acetone dissolves most of the glue enough to free them, then the remaining residue can be rapidly burnt and scraped off – if you heat superglue or epoxy it goes all tacky and soft. Thankfully these clowns know as little about chemistry as they know about climate change, and I’m not about to give them any lessons.
Ironic isn’t it. I note that all of the items of apparel are made from fossil feedstocks, as are fossil fuels. But such polymeric materials consume less than ten percent of the feedstocks, so it is the fuel demand that keeps the cost of polymer precursors low. And also the cost of other feedstock derivatives like asphalt. Without fossil fuels, the gentleman in the photo would be unlikely able to afford the shoes, pants, jackets, bottles, and glue.