21/04/25: Disrupted planes at Trollhättan airport

Disrupted planes at Trollhättan airport to deliver a Letter to Humanity

Frida Sundblad, 41, and William Grönlund, 50, from Återställ Våtmarker (Restore Wetlands) walked hand in hand across the runways at Trollhättan airport towards a departing plane to deliver a letter to the passengers and the pilot. On Easter Monday, Återställ Våtmarker carried out its fifth action at airports to draw attention to the fact that the Swedish climate policy is in free fall.

“This is what one of the world’s most renowned scientists, Sir David King, head of the global Climate Crisis Advisory Group, says: ‘On our current path, civilisation as we know it will disappear. If we only meet current commitments – net zero by 2050 – perhaps some form of humanity will survive.’ This is what’s at stake – total annihilation of life on Earth,” says Edvin Erixzon, spokesperson for Återställ Våtmarker.

We are too few. But imagine if we had been one hundred, or a thousand, people today. Then we could have reached all the way into the cabin. After the safety demonstration, we could have borrowed the microphone to read out this warning to you. We are deep into the greatest catastrophe in human history. Human and non-human life is already being lost on an unprecedented scale. We can stop this and we can still create a good future. But we can only do it if many of us try together. This is what Frida and William wrote in the letter they were on their way to deliver to the plane’s passengers.

Peter Kalmus, a prominent NASA scientist, writes: “If you are still mad at climate activists, I’m not sure what to tell you. The climate crisis is on track to push one-third of humanity out of its most livable environment.” When the words of scientists are completely ignored by those in power, ordinary people must sound the alarm louder than ever,” says Lior Tell Stefansson, spokesperson for Återställ Våtmarker.

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Spokesperson
Edvin Erixzon
+46 767-990091
[email protected]

Spokesperson
Lior Tell Stefansson
+46 723-322588
[email protected]

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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, enclosed in water. The carbon that has been stored is released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide when it comes into contact with oxygen during extraction.

Peatlands cover only 3% of the Earth’s surface but store twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests combined. Allowing peat bogs to remain untouched is vital in order to prevent the climate catastrophe from worsening. This can only be ensured through legislation banning peat extraction.

Such a ban would be especially important in Sweden, which has 15% of its land area covered by peatlands and, after Germany and Finland, is the third-largest producer of peat in the world.

Återställ Våtmarkers campaign aims to immediately pressure the government to ban destructive peat extraction, thereby banning foreign fossil fuel companies, such as the Finnish state-owned Neova, from operating in Sweden. Areas where peat extraction has occurred should be rapidly restored into thriving wetlands to immediately reduce Sweden’s emissions, protect against wildfires and drought, purify and replenish groundwater supplies, and increase biodiversity.

Återställ Våtmarker was founded in late March 2022. It is a group of people using peaceful resistance to force the Swedish government to ban peat extraction and restore wetlands – the first necessary step to protect its population instead of destroying it. Återställ Våtmarker is part of an international resistance network, the A22 Network, active in 10 countries.The vision of Återställ Våtmarker is an improved democracy, where the people decide through citizens’ assemblies how our country can become free of pollution and emissions – a land where our children can grow up safe and healthy, a society where we live in harmony with nature and with one another.