Rethink! campaign launched 1 June 2006
Friends of the Earth, as part of Airportwatch, has urged the Government to fundamentally rethink their unsustainable aviation policy.
The Government's massive airport expansion plans threaten to:
- make targets to tackle climate change unachievable
- damage our wildlife and countryside
- inflict noise on communities all over Britain
- impose extra traffic congestion on roads around airports
In a letter to the Independent, a group of leading environmentalists, scientists and politicians urged the Government to bring its aviation policy into line with climate change targets.
It also highlighted how the policy had been criticised by many respected bodies including the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.
The public are encouraged to support the Rethink! campaign by writing to Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for Transport, to call for a complete aviation policy review.
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