“We know we caused an inconvenience at the Montreal airport, but we must collectively reconsider what we find inconvenient.”
With our hands glued to the road, Last Generation Canada supporters blocked access to the arrivals and departures areas of Montreal’s Trudeau airport. Maybe you were one of the people we inconvenienced. We sprayed entrance doors with paint and held banners with a clear message: Oil kills.
Everywhere you look, there’s damning evidence of the dystopia we face and will continue to face — unless we end fossil fuels. To pretend otherwise, that we can continue to use fossil fuels and still live on this earth, is cognitive dissonance on steroids. It’s an absurdist mentality that puts lives, homes and our beautiful world at risk.
We know we caused an inconvenience at the Montreal airport, but we must collectively reconsider what we find inconvenient. Extreme unnatural weather like wildfires, forced displacement, the potential collapse of our water and food sources — these are beyond inconvenient. They’re a matter of life or death.
That’s why we caused disruption at the airport. We did it with our bodies, but above all with our hearts. And rest assured, we’ll keep fighting. An international revolution to end fossil fuels isn’t just an aspiration, but an absolute necessity.
Laura Sullivan and Gillian Graham are spokespeople for Last Generation Canada, a non-violent civil resistance campaign.