Posh kids causing airport chaos
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2018479.ece
Summary:
At Stansted airport in Essex was a demonstration against climate change what caused 150 delayed or cancelled flights. This airport is Britain’s third busiest one. Armed police took five hours to recover the chaos at the airport and charged about 56 youth who were protesting. Protest group Plane Stupid wanted to make people aware of the pollution in the environment caused by airports. Four of the arrested protesters from the Plane Stupid are posh children, for instant a baronet’s granddaughter and a grandson of the late Labour peer Anthony Greenwood. The arrested youth will have to appear in court in December.
Opinion:
I think it’s a good thing that Protest groups like Plane Stupid exists. Like in this case a lot of other people do agree with this group’s statement without doing anything about it, so for those people it’s a benefit that this group object to climate change. But I think there are lots of other possibilities to make their statement clear to the whole country without blaming so many people like they did with protesting at the airport. It’s the same problem as in Thailand a few weeks ago, innocent people have to deal with the problems which protestor are provoking. In such cases I don’t think an airport is the right place to protest despite of the fact they reach at the same time a lot of attention by the media.
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I think it is good to pay attention to pollution of airplanes and that there are ‘posh children’ protesting makes that it gets even more attention of the media. On the other hand, the delayed flights will fly anyway and I think that a lot of the protestors will have flied by airplane at least once. It is difficult to really act on the global worming, because we really have to change our lifestyle and we will not do that until we are forced to change. I think that a positive action against pollution is a better option to get attention. They good do something good for the environment their selves and try to involve as many people as possible.
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