{"id":27670,"date":"2022-11-25T06:38:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T06:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=27670"},"modified":"2022-11-25T06:38:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T06:38:08","slug":"airport-runways-in-berlin-reopen-following-a-two-hour-protest-by-environmentalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/11\/25\/airport-runways-in-berlin-reopen-following-a-two-hour-protest-by-environmentalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport runways in Berlin reopen following a two-hour protest by environmentalists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to a protest by environmentalists, Germany&#8217;s Berlin Brandenburg Airport was shut down for about two hours on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Last Generation activists hacked through the fence with a bolt cutter, entered the tarmac, and later taped themselves to runways to obstruct takeoffs and landings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The airplane is not a common form of transportation for regular people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 80% of people had never flown, according to the campaigners, who live-streamed their protest on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They said that &#8220;one rich percent of the population alone contributes approximately half of the flight-related emissions&#8221; and urged people to avoid flying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While there were delays in aircraft operations owing of the climate protest, Berlin Brandenburg Airport reported that the runways were reopened after security personnel intervened and brought the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to a protest by environmentalists, Germany&#8217;s Berlin Brandenburg Airport was shut down for about two hours on Thursday. The Last Generation activists hacked through the fence with a bolt cutter, entered the tarmac, and later taped themselves to runways to obstruct takeoffs and landings. &#8220;The airplane is not a common form of transportation for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":27671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11363,11888,5754,8989,8655,3862,4024,11356,8290,11355,66,9385,11973,9374,5561,5655,10220,5350,594],"class_list":["post-27670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-aircraft","tag-airplane","tag-airport","tag-berlin","tag-berlin-airport","tag-climate-change","tag-common","tag-delays","tag-fence","tag-flight","tag-germany","tag-hacked","tag-one","tag-population","tag-protest","tag-security","tag-transportation","tag-twitter","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}