Just Stop Oil activists have targeted “multiple private jets” at London’s Stansted Airport just hours after Taylor Swift’s plane landed there in their second anti-fossil fuels protest in fewer than 24 hours.
At around 5am this morning, a pair of protesters from the group daubed two private aircraft with bright orange spray paint after appearing to cut their way through a chain-link fence with a circular saw to gain access to the tarmac.
In a statement from the group – which contains a number of Taylor Swift-related puns – the demonstrating duo, 22-year-old Cole Macdonald and 28-year-old Jennifer Kowalski, took aim at billionaires and private jets for “destroying the conditions necessary to support human life” on Earth.
It is unclear whether the activists managed to hit Swift’s plane itself, but the pair were quick to post footage and images from the incident online, which can be seen below.
The protesters targeted private jets at Stansted Airport
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Macdonald said: “We’re living in two worlds: one where billionaires live in luxury, able to fly in private jets away from the other, where unlivable conditions are being imposed on countless millions.
“Meanwhile, this system that is allowing extreme wealth to be accrued by a few, to the detriment of everyone else, is destroying the conditions necessary to support human life in a rapidly accelerating never-ending ‘cruel summer’.
“Billionaires are not untouchable – climate breakdown will affect every single one of us.”
While Kowalski said: “Over the years, I’ve had to realise that even working in sustainability provides me with essentially no ability to make the necessary changes to prevent the complete collapse of our natural systems. I have to take desperate measures to make my voice heard.”
The demonstrators appeared to break through a fence to gain entry to the tarmac
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Activists spray-painted the jets bright orange
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“In 2024 we all have to be considering what we can do each day to change the course our society is on. We need an emergency treaty to stop the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030.”
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