You're not gonna cut the CO2 from air travel for a long time. Itll probably be the last to go.
Power generation, automobiles yeah it going to and has to happen and there are piratical solutions that exist to these problems but the technological solutions for the aerospace industry are years behind.
I'm so dubious about the Greens because they basically only ever offer solutions that amount to reducing your materialistic quality of life as opposed generating intelligent discussion about how to improve it while making it act in equilibrium with the planet. This always make me believe that they're more on a puritanical trip against materialism which is their right to pursue but I wish they'd just be honest and say we think people should have less stuff and that will make them better people.

I'm even more dubious looking at Ms Lucas's academic back ground which consists of English literature and journalism. She entered into politics as a CND campaigner which doesn't require a high level of technical expertise to understand. Bombs are bad therefore campaign. But to campaign on most green issues should require a rigorous knowledge of the sciences as green issues are essentially just related to the applied sciences.

The whole campaign against the airline industry is itself indicative of a lack of scientific knowledge and critical reasoning. It constitutes an absolute failure to prioritize in the areas of the economy where CO2 reductions can realistically be made possibly for the sake of making grandiose and theatrical protests.

We spend over 25% of the EU budget on the common agricultural policy, subsidizing farmers to essentially set aside land to do nothing and to raise food prices. A real Green party would mobilize the airport protesters to march on Brussels and demand that the common agricultural policy is reformed so that land that is subsidised to grow nothing will grow bio-fuels for our cars. Bio-fuels aren't increasing food prices,
agricultural corporatism is

Caroline, MI5 must have agents embedded in "Plane Stupid", not to mention bugging, wiretaps via Langley, ect.

It is clear that the government and MI5 are using a double edged blade, the question is, which edge will impart the deepest cut?

Every passenger on those cancelled Ryanair flights, should sue every protester for compensation and costs. LOL

You greeens just haven`t thought it through.LOL

pete999:

You are definitely right. The issue can't be about impending global environmental collapse and wide-spread catastrophe. Rather, it must be about middle-class snobbery.

What ice bergs?

As I`ve pointed out above, if MI5 knew and Standsted security moved a snails pace, the one can only conclude that one of the governments objectives, was an attack on Ryanair itself, in an attempt to protect BA`s long term position/margin.LOL

Michael O`Leary was highly critical of over zealous security following the NWO sham liquid bomb plot which was designed to keep Bliar in power.

Cybertiger

Hoon has always been a "dumb loon", but so is Lynas and Lucas!

I wouldn`t mind if the campaigned for a reduction in air travel across the board, or rationing each passenger with air miles. But they aren`t. They are wasting their time trying to stop runways being built.

Planes at LHR are waiting half an hour, just to land, they are waiting to take off, do we really want this to happen at Stansted? If you can`t get an absolute restriction on flights, then "Plane Stupid" are plain stupid wasting their time on runway building.

As usual, they government/MI5 have used a pressure group to attack one particular airline..."RYANAIR". It stinks.

They have the publicity and the irate Colonels fuming as well as the Chavs this time! The manipulation here is interesting. There seems to be direct action against the proles taking these cheap flights to costa blanca. The people who are doing it are the young middle class eco-fuzzy, fodder who take the gap year flights in their droves to the ecologically friendly full moon, narcotic parties at Pha Na Fook. The Ridley's Turtle get high on the left overs!
Why not switch the power station off turn the airport off and when the populace come looking , hand over these eco-fascists to the mob for a bit of true roots, local democracy. Of course in modern EU land policeman even b'stard policeman deserve to have children throw molotov cocktails at them, they should accept the immolation as part of the community bonding process and the road to a better society.

But imagine the protest if all the small farmers in the developing world got wind of what is going to happen to them.

taghioff.info; so whats going to happen to farmes on the developing world, yawn?

markh, its amazing how complicit the greeens are with the NWO controlled MSM, by targetting Ryanair and the their customers, while BA and the growing cruise line business never gets a mention.

Oh yeh, you can fly LONG HAUL, then sit in a tin can while its pushed around the Caribbean for two weeks, only to fly home LONG HAUL.LOL

The government would like an International agreement on airline fuel duty, but only when the likes of Ryanair are out of business....hence the reason MI5 and the police did nothing to stop "Plane Stupid" at Stansted.

Maybe I should start a protest group and park a couple of cars at the entrance to Terminal 5...that would result in thousands of BA customers missing their flghts!LOL

Next thing we`ll hear, is that Micheal O`Leary has been found "dead in the woods".LOL

BTW, I use Ryanair, several times a year, to fly to Tours or Poitiers. There aren`t many, what you term poor people. There are business people, couples on a short break, MIDDLE CLASS families renting fairly expensive holiday homes and Brits who in France. Of course, these people used to drive, which can be expensive, depending on how many travel. One Ryanair flight has got to better for the environment, than 70 odd cars driving 1100 milies each with ferry, or tunnel crossing.

Like I said, the greeens have thought it through and for all I know, "Plane Stupid`s" high comand is made up of MI5 agents.LOL