From:            laura gibbons
To:                Commission-Public-Records
Subject:           [EXTERNAL] Public comments (written only) for Tuesday"s Port Commissioner meeting
Date:              Thursday, December 9, 2021 1:34:24 PM
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Hello commissioners,
You hear regularly from me and other members of 350 Seattle. I want to share this call to end
greenwashing of aviation that was endorsed by 86 other organizations internationally, in addition to 350
Seattle.
Laura Gibbons (Seattle)





The climate and ecological emergency demands real solutions
While millions of people all over the world are fighting for their future and pushing harder for
climate action, the aviation sector is redoubling its greenwashing efforts. Its lobbying campaigns
spotlight improbable technological step-changes to legitimise the plan to jump back to pre-Covid
growth levels.
But their promised 'solutions' are flawed! Aircraft efficiency improvements, biofuels, e-fuels,
hydrogen, electric flights, as well as offsetting have major obstacles and negative side effects.
Even worse: the sector has never kept its word. Even if its promises were plausible, any
meaningful climate benefit would come too late and be consumed by proposed expansion plans.
Climate science is clear about the urgency to deeply cut emissions by 2030 - not by 2050 or
even later. Communities around the globe, especially those least responsible for the climate crisis,
are already affected by its impacts -- any commitment to climate justice requires that we wait no
longer to enact real change.
We cannot tolerate diversionary tactics! We demand real solutions to the crisis now. With
this petition we urge decision makers around the world to stop engaging in greenwashing and to
instead reduce flights to a minimum. We call for a just transition, significant taxes on aviation fuel
and tickets (with a focus on long haul and business class) and the shifting of short- and middlehaul
flights to rail. Progressive policies such as a frequent flyer levy are available to ensure the
biggest polluters pay their fair share, and do not pass the burden on to those who hardly fly at all.

87 undersigning organisations:
ADERA  Protection de l'environnement  Aroport de Beauvais-Till | ADVOCNAR  Association de Dfense
Contre les Nuisances Ariennes | AfrosRD | AirportWatch | Aitec | Aktionsbndnis "FMO-Ausstieg jetzt!" | Alofa
Tuvalu | Alternatiba | Am Boden bleiben | Amigos da Terra Brasil | ASBEC Association qualit de vie  Bernex et
Confignon | Association de Dfense des Riverains de l'Aroport de Ble-Mulhouse | Association Climat Genve |
Association no21 | ATE Association transports et environnement | ATERRA | ATTAC France | BAW Hamburg
Schleswig-Holstein | Bay Area  System Change not Climate Change | Bevar Jordforbindelsen | Biofuelwatch |
BiziLagunEkin plataforma | Brgerinitiative gegen Fluglrm Raunheim | Canope | CAP AU NORD | cBalance |
CCNAAT Toulouse | Climximo | Colectivo VientoSur | Collectif contre l'extension de l'aroport de Montpellier et
pour un arrt total des vols entre Montpellier et Paris | Collectif Non au T4 | Coordinadora de Pueblos y
Organizaciones del Oriente del Estado de Mxico en Defensa de la Tierra, el Agua y su Cultura (CPOOEM) |
Council for Sustainable Transport, Denmark | Counter Balance | Department of Philosophy Klagenfurt University |
Ecologistas en Accin | Ethik-Labor | EUROSOLAR | Flight Free Australia | Flight Free UK | Flight Free USA |
Flight Free Vermont | Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific | Friends of the Earth International | Gatwick Area
Conservation Campaign (GACC) | Global Anti-Aerotropolis Movement (GAAM) | Global Forest Coalition | Green
Sky Thinking | Group for Action on Leeds Bradford Airport | KLUG Koalition Luftverkehr Umwelt und Gesundheit |
Korea Federation for Environmental Movements | Labor fr Kunst und nachhaltige Bildung (LaKunaBi) |
Milieudefensie | Morar em Lisboa | Movimiento Ciudadano frente al Cambio Climatico | National Forum for
Advocacy Nepal (NAFAN) | Natuurpunt MaViSt Kern Steenokkerzeel | No Badgerys Creek Inc | Otros Mundos
Chiapas | ReCommon | Rede para o Decrescimento | Rseau Action Climat (RAC) | Residents Against Aircraft
Noise | Rsistance climatique | ROBIN WOOD e.V. | Save Maldives Campaign | SchipholWatch | Scientists for
Global Responsibility | South-West Essex fight the Flights | Stay Grounded | Stop extension aroport Marseille-
Provence | Stop OAK Expansion | System Change, not Climate Change | TaCa (agir pour le climat) | Transition
Highbury | UFCNA | Umanotera, Slovenian Foundation for Sustainable Development | UNI.CO.MAL. | VCS beider
Basel | VeFeF Vereinigung fr ertrglichen Luftverkehr, Sektion Baden Wettingen | Vereinigung Bndner
Umweltorganisationen vbu | Verein kostadt Basel | Werkgroep Red Gelderland | XR Huddersfield | 350 Seattle |
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