aristoph

I liked this bit - the only food they'll be able to source local to LHR is roadkill but I bet they're all vegetarians!

"Run without leaders by everyone who comes along, it will be a working ecological village using renewable energy, composting waste and sourcing food locally."

BahrainLad

Shall we organise a Do? Show the worst excesses of capitalism next door.

aristoph

Their site is a real hoot! Look at the depth of scientific knowledge they display.

"The scale of the problem is mind-boggling: the new report from the United Nations Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change says that if we continue with rapidly increasing fossil-fuel use, global average temperatures may rise by 6 degrees Celsius. The last time this happened was 251 million years ago and some 99% of all living individuals died."

I assume they mean 99% of "individual" invertebrates!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian...tinction_event

Jenbel

Actually, there is a tescos south of LHR... does that count as sourcing food locally?!

modularmayhem

First time ive ever laughed out loud at something i read on FT

nobbyclark

That'll be McDonald's in Staines, then.

IAMORGAN

Aah but they argue that the ?150,000? who ostensibly die from 'Climate Change' annually have the right to life...

My argument is simply that if we cut air traffic out of the UK by 90% by 2030 (which is what they want), there will be no proper economy in Europe -what will that achieve? more aid for Africa? Eradication of world poverty? No. Instead, it will lead to increased povery in Europe and Africa -and we all know the civil liberties that people enjoy in countries without a functioning and healthy economy -they are non existant.

Of course we need to look at how we can cut our emissions, but I believe that attacking tourists and business people really isn't the way to go about it. I hope that the police keep a close eye on the protestors and they carry out a 'peaceful protest' -as soon as operations begin to be disrupted, perhaps the police could use their powers to move them on.

redshift27

Tush! You are such pessimist! Stop all air travel AND all modern communications and then we won't even know about the starving Third World! Problem solved.

schofs

Wirelessly posted (Portable FT Checker: BlackBerry8700/4.1.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/155)

Arg!!! Right when I'm off to vegas. Great.

FlyerTalker46423

And what is wrong with that? You carnivores are all the same.

das05r

"One person's freedom ends where anothers begins."

ajax

Exactly. Tourists and businesspeople flying out of LHR are easy targets, not because their actions have any effect whatever on climate change. Any protest disrupting their travel is going to be completely ineffective in the long run.

Why don't these people go to China, where it is estimated that one coal-fired power plant per week is being opened? Well obviously a two-year stint in People's Prison #5 isn't too enticing...

The fact is that these protests are completely mis-directed and accomplish very little aside from giving these very groups negative PR.

Jenbel

@:-) Possibly they don't got to China because writing 'going to protest about the building of power plants' as their reason for visit is unlikely to get them a visa issued?

ElkeNorEast

Interesting article about this in Daily Mail today - protest is apparently being run by "veteran anticapitalist protester Paul Morozzo."

Found this part of article particularly hiliarious:

"He is a friend of Dewhurst Butcher�s chain heir Mark Brown, 42, who funded his anti-capitalist activities with a �42,000-a-year trust fund left by his grandfather Sir Derek Vestey, the meat tycoon. Mr Brown was acquitted in April 2000 of masterminding the 1999 City riots which caused �2million worth of damage.

You gotta love a trust-fund-funded anti-capitalist campaigner Wonder if he's a vegetarian too???

aristoph

So he lives in Hebden Bridge? Enough said!

Here are Mr Morozzo's views on cars, by the way.

"We are basically about taking back public space from the enclosed private arena. At its simplest it is an attack on cars as a principle agent of enclosure. It's about reclaiming the streets as public inclusive space from the private exclusive use of the car. But we believe in this as a broader principle, taking back those things which have been enclosed within capitalist circulation and returning them to collective use as commons."

A genuine unrepentant communist, it seems.