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Heathrow expansion is absolutely rotten news.
How come?
It's something I don't know much about (other than a committee got appointed to make the decision and that decision got kicked down the road because Cameron was worried about his popularity).
From a totally uninformed opinion I always liked the idea of a totally new Thames estuary airport.
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because Cameron was worried about his popularity
Is this the definition of irony?
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An airport in the middle of the feeding grounds for a vast avian population? What could possibly go wrong.
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10,000 Londoners per year suffer premature deaths from air pollution due to NOx.
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From a totally uninformed opinion I always liked the idea of a totally new Thames estuary airport.
Even if it's close to the sunken ammunion warship?
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How come?
It's something I don't know much about (other than a committee got appointed to make the decision and that decision got kicked down the road because Cameron was worried about his popularity).
From a totally uninformed opinion I always liked the idea of a totally new Thames estuary airport.
Air travel is unbelievably damaging and unsustainable. This column by Greenpeace gives you a good summary:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/25/heathrow-third-runway-davies-commission
There are millions of articles on the topic, of course.
For me, it's not just about emissions, but about what I call 'geographical dissociation'. Obviously, we all like to travel, but I see any form of travel that persistently transports people to other places while destroying their sense of getting there as deeply problematic. Economically, all the easy availability of travel options like that does is to concentrate power and wealth in very few places, e.g. places like London that can afford to build gigantic airports. This is a Very Bad Thing. More locally-based economies are better.
The world needs to reduce capacity for air travel, not increase it. Keep it for the ways in which it is really needed.
And yes, that estuary airport plan is simply bonkers.
Soul
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Oliver Schick
Heathrow expansion is absolutely rotten news. The Stone Age never really ended in transportation, but if there's one thing we don't need, it's more airport capacity.