Crackpot Enviros Against Travel

You think America’s enviros sometimes end up on the nutty side?  Then look at the British group Plane Stupid.  They don’t like air travel, which accounts for a marginal three percent of greenhouse gases.  Even if you shot every plane out of the sky, you wouldn’t have much impact on the climate, even if it one assumes the unlikely worst-case scenarios from the alarmists.

Plane Stupid recently did a monumentally stupid thing by trying to shut down travel agents who are–yes, shockingly–seeking to profit by destroying the globe by helping people travel.  Reports Plane Stupid:

Plane Stupid activists shut down travel agents on route of climate march

8th December 2007 - Environmental activists from direct action group Plane Stupid have
shut down travel agents and airline offices along the route of today’s National Climate March in London as part of the Global Day of Action against climate change.Plane Stupid spokesperson Michael Kelly said,

“These businesses continue, with full support from the government, to profit from wrecking our climate.”

The march is set to coincide with the UN climate talks in Bali where the British government will continue to talk big on climate change whilst failing to take meaningful action at home.

Kelly added:

“The government’s collusion with BAA over the Heathrow consultation on the third runway concretes over public debate and irresponsibly ignores climate warnings from the UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change.”

Plane Stupid argues that we cannot afford to wait for governments, in bed with the likes of the aviation industry, to face up to the realities of the climate threat. Today Plane Stupid will march as part of the growing movement of climate activists who have decided that they must act themselves to stop climate change.

I’ll admit that I’m biased–I just returned from my first trip to Rome, which combined business and pleasure.  I enjoy wandering the globe.  Plane Stupid apparently wants to return us to Medieval times when most people were stuck in their home village for life.  No travel for family, pleasure, knowledge, commerce, or anything else.

Who would have thought that 21st Century progressivism would have become a throw-back to the Dark Ages!?