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Plane Stupid, the Glossary

Plane Stupid is a UK-focused group of environmental protesters who state their aim as wanting to see an end to airport expansion for what it sees as "unnecessary and unsustainable" flights.^[1]

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Aviation and the environment
Civil disobedience in the United Kingdom
Climate change organisations based in the United Kingdom
Environmental protests in the United Kingdom
Heathrow Airport
London Stansted Airport
Radical environmentalism
Transport advocacy groups of the United Kingdom

Aberdeen Airport

Aberdeen International Airport (Port-adhair Eadar-nàiseanta Obar Dheathain) is an international airport, located in the Dyce suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland, approximately northwest of Aberdeen city centre.

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Airbus

Airbus SE is a European multinational aerospace corporation.

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Airport

An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport.

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AirportWatch

AirportWatch is an environmental group which campaigns for sustainable air transport through reduction or redistribution of demand, determined by either timing or location (Demand Management approach). Plane Stupid and AirportWatch are transport advocacy groups of the United Kingdom.

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Breach of the peace

Breach of the peace or disturbing the peace, is a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries and in a public order sense in the several jurisdictions of the United Kingdom.

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British Airways

British Airways plc (BA) is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom.

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Camp for Climate Action

The Camps for Climate Action are campaign gatherings (similar to peace camps) that take place to draw attention to, and act as a base for direct action against, major carbon emitters, as well as to develop ways to create a zero-carbon society. Plane Stupid and camp for Climate Action are direct action and Radical environmentalism.

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Climate Rush

Climate Rush is a UK organisation that campaigns on various environmental issues related to climate change. Plane Stupid and climate Rush are climate change organisations based in the United Kingdom, environmental protests in the United Kingdom and Radical environmentalism.

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Custard

Custard is a variety of culinary preparations based on sweetened milk, cheese, or cream cooked with egg or egg yolk to thicken it, and sometimes also flour, corn starch, or gelatin.

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Direct action

Direct action is a term for economic and political behavior in which participants use agency—for example economic or physical power—to achieve their goals.

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East Midlands Airport

East Midlands Airport is an international airport in the East Midlands of England, close to Castle Donington in northwestern Leicestershire, between Loughborough, Derby and Nottingham; Leicester is to the south and Lincoln northeast.

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EasyGroup

EasyGroup Ltd (styled as easyGroup, or simply easy) is a British multinational venture capital conglomerate founded in 1998.

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Edinburgh Airport

Edinburgh Airport is an international airport located in the Ingliston area of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Environmental direct action in the United Kingdom

The modern environmental direct action movement in the United Kingdom started in 1991 with the formation of the first UK "Earth First!" group for a protest at Dungeness nuclear power station. Plane Stupid and environmental direct action in the United Kingdom are direct action, environmental protests in the United Kingdom and Radical environmentalism.

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Environmental effects of aviation in the United Kingdom

The environmental effects of aviation in the United Kingdom are increasing due to the increasing demand for air travel in the country. Plane Stupid and environmental effects of aviation in the United Kingdom are aviation and the environment.

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Environmentalism

Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings.

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Farnborough Airport

Farnborough Airport (previously called: TAG Farnborough Airport, RAE Farnborough, ICAO Code EGLF) is an operational business/executive general aviation airport in Farnborough, Rushmoor, Hampshire, England.

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Flying Matters

Flying Matters was a pro-aviation coalition in the United Kingdom. Plane Stupid and Flying Matters are transport advocacy groups of the United Kingdom.

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Frankfurt Airport

Frankfurt Airport (Flughafen Frankfurt Main), is Germany's main international airport by passenger numbers, located in Frankfurt, Germany's fifth-largest city.

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Gas balloon

A gas balloon is a balloon that rises and floats in the air because it is filled with a gas lighter than air (such as helium or hydrogen).

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Green Party of England and Wales

The Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW; Plaid Werdd Cymru a Lloegr; Parti Gwer Pow Sows ha Kembra; often known simply as the Green Party or the Greens) is a green, left-wing political party in England and Wales.

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Harmondsworth

Harmondsworth is a village in the London Borough of Hillingdon in the county of Greater London with a short border to the south onto London Heathrow Airport and close to the Berkshire county border.

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Heathrow Airport

Heathrow Airport, called London Airport until 1966, is the main international airport serving London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Heathrow Airport Holdings

Heathrow Airport Holdings is a company that operates and manages Heathrow Airport based in London, England. Plane Stupid and Heathrow Airport Holdings are Heathrow Airport.

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Ionos

Ionos SE (proper spelling IONOS) is a German Internet service provider that is known for its web hosting, domain and cloud computing products.

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John McDonnell

John Martin McDonnell (born 8 September 1951) is a British politician who served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2015 to 2020.

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Joss Garman

Joss Garman (born 1985) is a British environmental and humanitarian campaigner who has worked as a campaign leader for Greenpeace UK, and as a director of The Syria Campaign.

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Ken Livingstone

Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English retired politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008.

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Leila Deen

Leila Deen (born 1979) is a British environmental activist, campaigning on the issues of climate change, poverty and water politics.

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London Biggin Hill Airport

London Biggin Hill Airport is a minor commercial airport serving Biggin Hill in the London Borough of Bromley, located south-southeast of Central London.

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London City Airport

London City Airport is a city airport in London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Stansted Airport

London Stansted Airport is the tertiary international airport serving London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom.

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Manchester Airport

Manchester Airport is an international airport in Ringway, Manchester, England, south-west of Manchester city centre.

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Military–industrial complex

The expression military–industrial complex (MIC) describes the relationship between a country's military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy.

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Nairobi

Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya.

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Natalie Bennett

Natalie Louise Bennett, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (born 10 February 1966), is an Australian-British politician and journalist who served as Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012 to 2016.

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Natural History Museum, London

The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman (known from 1931 to 1964 as the New Statesman and Nation) is a British political and cultural news magazine published in London.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nonviolence

Nonviolence is the personal practice of not causing harm to others under any condition.

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Palace of Westminster

The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is located in London, England.

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Panic button

A panic alarm is an electronic device that can easily be activated to request help during an emergency where danger to persons or property exists.

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Peter Mandelson

Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson (born 21 October 1953), is a British Labour Party politician who served as First Secretary of State from 2009 to 2010.

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Plane Mad

Plane Mad is an Irish direct action group that campaigns against the aviation industry's contribution to climate change. Plane Stupid and Plane Mad are aviation and the environment and Radical environmentalism.

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Poznań

Poznań is a city on the River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region.

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Royal International Air Tattoo

The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) is the world's largest military air show, held annually in July, usually at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England in support of The Royal Air Force Charitable Trust.

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Ryanair

Ryanair is an Irish ultra low-cost carrier group headquartered in Swords, Dublin, Ireland.

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Scottish Parliament Building

The Scottish Parliament Building (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots Pairlament Biggin) is the home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, within the UNESCO World Heritage Site in central Edinburgh.

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Secretary of State for Business and Trade

The secretary of state for business and trade (business secretary), is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with responsibility for the Department for Business and Trade.

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Sheriff court

A sheriff court (Cùirt an t-Siorraim) is the principal local civil and criminal court in Scotland, with exclusive jurisdiction over all civil cases with a monetary value up to, and with the jurisdiction to hear any criminal case except treason, murder, and rape, which are in the exclusive jurisdiction of the High Court of Justiciary.

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Sipson

Sipson is a village in the London Borough of Hillingdon, the westernmost borough of Greater London, England.

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Southampton Airport

Southampton Airport is an international airport located in both Eastleigh and Southampton, Hampshire, in England.

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Strathclyde Police

Strathclyde Police was the territorial police force responsible for the Scottish council areas of Argyll and Bute, Glasgow City, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire (The former Strathclyde local government region) between 1975 and 2013.

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Taxiway

A taxiway is a path for aircraft at an airport connecting runways with aprons, hangars, terminals and other facilities.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Transport Select Committee

The Transport Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Trespass to land

Trespass to land is a common law tort or crime that is committed when an individual or the object of an individual intentionally (or, in Australia, negligently) enters the land of another without a lawful excuse.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_Stupid

Also known as Plain Stupid.

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See also

Aviation and the environment

Civil disobedience in the United Kingdom

Climate change organisations based in the United Kingdom

Environmental protests in the United Kingdom

Heathrow Airport

London Stansted Airport

Radical environmentalism

Transport advocacy groups of the United Kingdom

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