Three activists from the environmental organization Futuro Vegetal have accessed the Eivissa airport runway early this Friday, have sprayed paint with fire extinguishers on a private jet and have stuck to the plane, to claim the Government that the subsidies that are given livestock to “promote socially and ecologically responsible plant-based alternatives”.
According to the collective, the protest action has forced “to stop all air traffic at the airport”, “forcing the closure of the runway for several hours”.
Futuro Vegetal, through a statement and on social networks, has stressed “the need to adapt the agri-food system to a context of climate chaos.” In his opinion, the institutions should act as if the temperature increase limit established by the Paris Agreement had already been exceeded, “because everything indicates that this decade will be exceeded” and for now they do not stop breaking records.
The group has criticized that “no” political party has a package of forceful measures to alleviate the climate crisis nor does it seem to be capable of implementing the changes that are needed. “The science is clear, we need a change in the production model and we cannot wait for the institutions to act. We have been warning for more than 30 years that we are headed for the worst scenarios and we are beginning to suffer from them,” he warned.
For Futuro Vegetal, the climate crisis entails “forced displacement, famine and suffering” for all the inhabitants of the planet. “It is the responsibility of all of society to build as a community, regardless of who governs, to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis or we will be forced into bleak scenarios,” they indicate.
This protest action is part of the ‘Jets and yachts, the party’s over’ campaign, convened by the ‘Eivissa Es Rebel la’ platform, various climate organizations on the island that They demand a ban on private jets and eliminate luxury emissions.
A few days ago, activists from Futuro Vegetal and Extinction Rebellion also participated in a protest at the ‘Blue Marlin’ luxury beach club in Cala Jondal (Sant Josep, Eivissa), to warn of the “incompatibility of sustaining the lifestyle of the mega-rich and tackling the climate crisis.
