Climate Protesters Bring Berlin Airport Traffic to a Standstill by Gluing Themselves to Runway

November 25th, 2022

Awake Goy

Berlin Brandenburg airport was briefly shut down on Thursday after a group of climate demonstrators broke in and glued themselves to the runway in protest over greenhouse gas emissions.
The airport was forced to close its runways for takeoff and landing for nearly two hours after protesters from the Letzte Generation (Last Generation) environmental group broke onto the site and stuck themselves to the tarmac while others rode bicycles across the shunting area.
Protesters denounced the aviation industry and urged the public to stop traveling by air, while also calling on the government to stop subsidizing air travel.
“Airoplanes [sic] are no means of transport for common people. 80 percent of people never ever went anywhere by plane. Only one very wealthy percent is responsible for about of emissions caused by air traffic,” Letzte Generation said in a statement on Nov. 25 alongside video footage appearing to show three of the protesters breaking into the airport’s grounds through a wire fence…. Source

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