Drone over the Landvetter Airport
During Easter AM yet another action happened where Återställ Våtmarker flew a drone at Gothenburg Landvetter Airport. Anton, 29, and Edvin, 28, flew the drone at 30 m above the ground and then sat and awaited the police.
– Our politicians have so far completely failed to handle the situation. That’s why normal people choose to act and break their passivity. The time to avoid disaster and collapse has already run out – but we will not give up. For every day that passes we, regular people, can fight to prevent a total extinction of all life on earth. Just close down the fucking peat mines! says Alfred Westh, press spokesperson at Återställ Våtmarker
Peat is Sweden’s brown coal. Peat releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than coal, oil and gas when it is mined, regardless if it’s burned as fuel or used as soil for plants. All this during the largest catastrophe in humanity’s history. Återställ Våtmarker’s goal is to get a total ban on peat mining, as stated on their website.
– I am so insanely worried about the children and for our common future. I am a kindergarten teacher and I meet many children. Right now those children are being totally robbed of their right to a habitable planet, because us grownups are not acting. I am afraid but before all angry because the grown up world is letting the children down, says Anton Charles Karlsson, who took part in the action.
Press Spokesperson
Alfred Westh
+4670-890 69 62
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Facts about peat
Peat is extracted from bogs. A peat bog is a place where dead organic material has been stored for thousands of years, surrounded by water. The carbon that has been stored ends up in the atmosphere when it comes into contact with oxygen during extraction and turns into carbon dioxide.
Peat bogs cover only 3% of the Earth’s surface but store twice as much carbon as all the forests on Earth. Leaving peat bogs untouched is vital to preventing the climate catastrophe from getting worse. This can only be ensured by a law banning peat extraction.
Such a ban would be particularly important in Sweden, which has 15 percent of its land area covered by peatlands, and which, after Germany and Finland, is the third largest peat producer in the world.
Återställ Våtmarker’s campaign aims to get the government to ban the destructive peat mining with immediate effect. Land where peat mining has been carried out must be immediately restored to viable wetlands to reduce Sweden’s emissions; protect against forest fires and drought, clean and replenish groundwater reserves and increase biodiversity.
Återställ Våtmarker started at the end of March 2022 and is an association of people who, through peaceful resistance, intend to force the Swedish government to ban peat mining and restore wetlands to take the first necessary step towards protecting its population instead of destroying it. Återställ Våtmarker is part of an international network, the A22 Network, of resistance taking place in 10 different countries.
Återställ Våtmarker’s vision is an improved democracy where the people get to decide through citizens’ councils how our country will become a country without toxins and emissions where our children can grow up safe and healthy, a society where we live in harmony with nature and with each other.