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The meeting point is scheduled for 3 pm on Sunday, next to the Relógio roundabout, close to one of the access points to the airport, and the objective is to promote "disruption of peak flight times at Lisbon Airport, the most polluting infrastructure in the country at the moment”.
For environmentalists, the airport is “a mirror not only of the touristification facing cities, but also of the monstrous size of the global aviation industry.”
Quoted in the statement, the spokesperson, Maria Lourenço, says that the “great social transformation” that is necessary “can only be led by popular power and not by companies and governments”.
"To avoid climate and social collapse, we need to cut at least 85% of greenhouse gas emissions in Portugal by 2030," he said, contesting the possibility of any expansion project and calling for an end to the "absurdity of private jets and short-haul flights (such as Lisbon-Porto)".
By 2030, it will be necessary to reduce the impact of commercial aviation and, in parallel, “a massive investment in a free and electrified public transport network that serves the entire territory and has good international connections” is needed, he added.
According to the movement, "Lisbon airport and the aviation industry are one of the main culprits in Portugal for the climate crisis", criticizing the decision to build a new structure.
In Portugal, “there is a parliamentary consensus on the construction of a new airport and the expansion of this deadly industry for everyone. This cannot happen: each new emitting infrastructure is a carbon bomb that will fall on us”, say the activists, who lament the result of the legislative elections.
“With the election results, it has become even clearer that this system will not save us. In fact, quite the opposite: it is collapsing and pushing us into the climate abyss,” they accuse.
Therefore, “it is up to us, the common people, to pull the emergency brake, build popular democracy and enter into climate resistance now”, they argue.
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This is a pointless exercise which serves no purpose. In Portugal aviation and shipping combined doesn’t make up even 4% of carbon emissions, and has been falling since its peak in 2018. Why is aviation being targeted?
Agriculture is responsible for more than double that, and road transport (moving people and products around the country) is 5 times that of aviation and shipping.
I get the urgency in combating climate change, (I happen to be an environmental scientist) but the way to tackle this isn’t through emotional responses, it is through steady, focused de carbonization of many industries.
By the way, Portugal has been doing that across every sector and carbon emissions have been steadily falling since 2005.
More to be done, for sure, but let’s do it logically please!
By Tony Williams from Other on 27 May 2025, 12:56
Up to us, the common people? These advocates are NOT common people. Where do they get their funding from that allows them to eat, pay their rent and spend days doing 'sit-ins'? That's the real story.
I am a common person and you do NOT speak for me. I understand climate change, and I also understand realism. Stopping traffic on the most important access point to an airport is kicking us common people in the teeth. I would like to know if every person protesting has NEVER taken a flight before.
Many ways to protest correctly, and traffic sit-ins is not it. If anything, it makes us 'common people', who are too busy WORKING to be able to eat and pay rent, angry. Perhaps these activists should get a real job and stop accepting funding from shady sources bent on destabilizing the country.
By Paulo from Algarve on 27 May 2025, 13:12
These people are demented. There is no global warming due to CO2 emissions. If anything CO2 is making the world much greener. Plants love CO2 in fact. There is plenty of scientific literature out there dispelling all the climate change hysteria. But it's good business for governments (taxes and emergency powers) to accept the hypothesis as incontrovertible. Frankly, any public disruptions by left-wing power-hungry people ought to be stopped immediately, but since most European governments are tied to one or another leftist religion, they will allow the riots to continue. But if Christians took to the streets, even with permits, in order to militate for any cause, the leftist authorities would shut them down instantly. What's sickening to we Americans is that 80 years ago, thousands upon thousands of Americans died to save the Old World from one form of authoritarianism, only to have it replaced by the present tyranny of eco-socialist gangsters.
By Tony from USA on 27 May 2025, 22:49