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Stay Grounded
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The international network campaigning against aviation - for a just mobility system.

https://stay-grounded.org/
We stand in full solidarity: if you target one of us, you target all of us. We are more than a few — and we will not be intimidated.

Let’s draw a red line:
🟥 against violence targeting activists
🟥 against airport expansion

#RedLinesForAirports #Solidarity
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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The full paper is here - and it’s a damning indictment of business-as-usual. Read it, share it, and call out every politician hiding behind false solutions:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Flight from reality: sustainable aviation, Jet Zero, and the technofix
This paper argues that rising aviation emissions, which are disproportionally driven by the wealthy, pose a serious threat to climate goals. Using the UK’s Jet Zero strategy as a case study, it exp...
www.tandfonline.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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We have the real solutions: end fossil fuel subsidies, ban private jets, shift short-haul flights to trains, and create good jobs in sustainable mobility. No more fantasies. Just transition, not jet-delusion.
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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The truth is simple: to stay below 1.5°C, aviation must shrink, not grow. Frequent flyers must finally be held accountable. Governments must stop bankrolling the industry and invest in rail, public transport, and communities instead.
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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This whole strategy is one thing: delay. Delay real climate action. Delay justice. Delay the shift we need towards demand reduction, fair taxation, night trains, and a just transition for workers.
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Offsets? A scam. They don’t reduce emissions - they outsource responsibility to communities in the Global South whose forests and land get stolen so the wealthy can keep boarding flights.
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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SAFs? Mostly greenwashing. Land-grabbing crops, deforestation, fake “used cooking oil,” sky-high energy use. Even the industry admits it can’t scale. SAF is just a PR shield for expansion.
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Meanwhile, the poorest fly the least yet face the worst impacts - droughts, floods, crop failures. This sector is engineered for inequality. 1% of people cause half of aviation emissions. That’s violence.
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Britain’s Jet Zero plan is a case study in climate injustice: techno-fantasies for the wealthy, climate chaos for everyone else. Even the government’s own data shows aviation emissions rising for decades.
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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The evidence is brutal: electric planes, hydrogen, SAF, carbon capture, offsets - none of it works at the scale needed. These “solutions” are just cover for endless growth and airport expansion. A smokescreen for profit.
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
As EU leaders posture at COP30, they keep protecting corporate polluters at home. This is a political choice, not an accident.

We demand: end fossil fuel tax exemptions now, make polluters pay, and fund a just transition.
November 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
But instead of ending these giveaways, they left in place the 20-year-old exemptions that already gift nearly €47 billion every year to the most polluting sectors. Aviation alone escapes €21.3 billion. Money that should fund trains, renewables, and climate resilience.
November 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
But the resistance is not giving up and the people of Jeju are renewing their call: scrap the second airport and protect Jeju’s future.

We stand in solidarity with Jeju’s farmers and residents defending their island against destructive aviation expansion.
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM