This morning, five civil resistance groups supporting ‘Oil Kills’ – an International Uprising to end oil, gas and coal by 2030 – caused disruption at airports across Europe. Climáximo supports this initiative to end fossil fuels by 2030.
In six European countries today, flights were delayed due to supporters sitting in airport taxiways, while normal passenger movement was disrupted in and on the way to airport terminals.
This morning’s actions were carried out by supporters of ‘Letzte Generation’ in Germany and Austria, ‘Folk Mot Fossilmakta’ in Norway, ‘Extinction Rebellion’ in Finland, ‘Futuro Vegetal’ in Spain, ‘Just Stop Oil’ in the UK, ‘Drop Fossil Subsidies’ and ‘Act Now – Liberate Switzerland’ in Switzerland and the international ‘Stay Grounded’ network.
According to a spokesperson for the Oil Kills campaign: “Ordinary people are taking matters into their own hands today to do what our criminal governments have failed to do. We are putting our bodies on the pillars of the global fossil economy and saying that oil kills; we refuse to die for fossil fuels and we refuse to stand by while hundreds of millions of innocent people are murdered. We are resisting our murderous governments and the criminal elites who are threatening the survival of humanity. ‘The climate crisis will not end until all countries have phased out fossil fuels, but those with the greatest responsibility and capacity must do the most. As citizens of rich countries in the Global North, we demand that our governments stop extracting and burning oil, gas and coal by 2030 and that they support and finance other countries to make a rapid, fair and equitable transition. Our governments must sign a Fossil Fuels Treaty to end the war on humanity before we lose everything.”
Climáximo stands in solidarity with this European action of civil resistance.
A Climáximo supporter, Alice Gato, adds that ‘after the news that yesterday was the hottest day ever recorded, it is the duty of all people to resist in order to stop the social and climatic collapse that governments and corporations around the world are deliberately and consciously pushing humanity towards.
It is the responsibility of every person alive today to resist the war that governments and companies have declared against society and the planet and to take action into our own hands to dismantle the weapons that are fossil fuels by 2030.’
The press release sent out by Oil Kills reads: ‘This morning is just the beginning. Governments and fossil fuel producers are waging war on humanity.
Even so-called climate leaders have continued to approve new coal, oil and gas projects, pushing the world towards a global catastrophe and condemning hundreds of millions of people to death.We need an international emergency response to save lives. Until political leaders take swift and decisive action to protect our communities from the worst effects of climate breakdown, we will continue to resist. Our work remains essential, morally right and increasingly urgent. The link between oil, gas and coal and human lives is now crystal clear: oil kills.’