Greenpeace have been setting up ticket exchange booths at four UK airports this morning, where they are offering travellers the chance to fight global warming by swapping their plane tickets for train tickets.
Volunteers from the environmental campaign group, dressed as stewards and stewardesses, have spent this morning offering free return train tickets to passengers checking into domestic flights at the London City, Manchester, Newcastle and Edinburgh airports .
Security guards have been busy trying to move the booths in Manchester, Newcastle and Edinburgh, while the booth at London City has already been moved.
Greenpeace director John Sauven said police surrounded him and his colleagues at London City Airport and marched them out of the building shortly after they started talking to passengers.
"Planes are 10 times more damaging to the climate than trains, and if we don't do something about the growth in aviation, Britain will find it very hard to meet its global warming targets," he commented.
"We are finding travellers are really interested to hear how polluting flying can be"
Air travel is responsible for 13 per cent of the UK's impact on the climate and is also the fastest growing source of emissions in the UK . The main cause behind the huge growth is the proliferation of short haul flights (often unnecessary domestic ones such as the 30-plus a day between London and Manchester), according to Greenpeace.
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