Sign the Pledge Against Airport Expansion

www.airportpledge.org.uk

The government says it wants to take action against climate change but also plans to double air travel - the most damaging form of transport - over the next twenty years. It wants to expand almost every airport in Britain and build huge new concrete runways across green fields at Stansted, Birmingham, Heathrow and Edinburgh. The communities around the airports will be blighted by the noise and air pollution.

The government is ignoring its own advisors - the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, the Environmental Audit Committee, and the Sustainable Development Commission - who are all saying that this is a dangerous and destructive policy.

The Airport Pledge shows the government the real threat it faces from the large number of people opposing this policy. The people who sign it say that if the government refuses to back away from its expansion policy, they will take personal action to block airport expansion and to prevent companies from supporting and funding it. What action people take is their personal choice but the pledge helps them with updates and ideas of what they can do.

It is a petition with a difference - it contains the real threat that the people who sign it will be active and determined. The groups behind the pledge believe that if enough people join the pledge, the risks of large scale opposition will force the government to reconsider its plans.

The pledge is managed by a broad coalition of environment and transport groups including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, People & Planet, and Transport 2000. The pledge is hosted by the climate change campaign network, Rising Tide.

You can visit the pledge at www.airportpledge.org.uk