Climate activists from Last Generation disrupted Munich airport by gluing themselves to a runway, leading to flight cancellations and delays over a busy weekend.
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What kind of glue did they use?
Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway
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https://www.euronews.com/2024/05/18/climate-activists-glue-themselves-to-munich-airport-runway
Lmaydev@programming.dev 6 months ago
Grounding planes is probably one of the most effective ways a person can cut emissions.
TwoCubed@feddit.de 6 months ago
I’m absolutely for eliminating domestic flights within European countries. Let’s get some good trains going instead. But traveling the skies is one of humanities greatest achievements and lets us explore other cultures in a way we otherwise never could. Let’s not get rid of those. I don’t want to be trapped here. Ban 30€ flights from Germany to Mallorca? Absolutely! Ban flights from Germany to APAC, Africa or the Americas? Please don’t.
micosil@lemmy.today 6 months ago
As a Mallorca resident, I’ll take the 40 minute flight from Barcelona over the 6 hour boat trip thank you very much
xor@infosec.pub 6 months ago
nah, this is one of those “shills running the activists” examples.
a. self-mangling is a good way to discourage sympathy or participation.
b. disrupting a bunch of random travelers, and actually endangering them because planes are in the air and need to land… so, not helpful in getting sympathy for the cause… just press coverage… which will be mostly negative.
c. there are a lot more direct ways to cause disruption, and a lot more sympathetic, less self-harming tactics to get press coverage… and much much much more effective than delaying some flights at one airport for a few hours… this is peak stupidity at worse, but more likely, peak infiltration…
e. did i mention it even fucks up the activists physically!!! it’s so fucking stupid and counter productive
InternetPerson@lemmings.world 6 months ago
The jury is still out on that. I’ve found research and surveys pointing in both directions. The positive and negative effects of such forms of protest are not sufficiently studied yet. Also historically, there are good examples for both.
Therefore, I wouldn’t judge yet.
From what I know about that activist group, they always ensure safety. On street blockages, they make room for ambulances, they also inform emergency services.
I haven’t looked it up for this case, but I can imagine, that they considered this.
I think, planes usually have enough fuel to land at another airport for such cases. There are emergency protocolsmror stuff like that anyway. So no one is really endagered here. Just inconvenienced.
What do you have in mind?
Not really though.
Despite that, every member knows the risk. They know what they are doing. They are not stupid and think about such protest actions thoroughly.
Teppichbrand@feddit.de 6 months ago
No it’s not. If there was a right way to protest everyone would do it. But protest is always messy, some people will hate you, some will applaude you, no matter what you do. So choose something and try it. Or sit on the couch and comment on the internet like you are not part of the collapse thats coming.
conquer4@lemmy.world 6 months ago
True! Now they can sit on the ground engines running and going nowhere.
Lmaydev@programming.dev 6 months ago
I doubt they leave the engines and even if they did leave them idling it’s better than flying