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Edinburgh Live
National
Kris Gourlay

Edinburgh climate activist group deflate tyres on 100 vehicles in New Town and Marchmont

Residents in upmarket Edinburgh neighbours, including New Town and Marchmont, woke on Thursday morning to find deflated tyres on their 'gas-guzzling SUVs'.

Climate activist group, The Tyre Extinguishers, once again left around 100 Edinburgh SUV owners with deflated tyres as part of their environmental war.

The group, who have been active all over the country, and further afield, have been targeting 'gas guzzling' SUVs in an attempt to prevent climate change and punish those who buy large vehicles that harm the environment.

Locals all over the city have been left furious after waking up to realise their vehicle is immobile, as well as blaming the group for causing potentially dangerous incidents.

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Around 100 SUVs were disarmed by the group on Thursday morning, in popular Edinburgh areas including Marchmont, New Town and Hillside.

The Tyre Extinguishers previously said "we'll be back" after finding so many SUVs in the New Town area that they ran out of leaflets.

This is the biggest Tyre Extinguishers night in Edinburgh yet, with simultaneous actions across multiple areas, after previous actions
targeting The Grange, The New Town and Portobello, all occurring since early March.

The true scale of The Tyre Extinguisher's work is not known, as not every group inform HQ after they take action, with those in charge only hearing about their work when angry SUV drivers arrive in their email inbox.

The group also said that they believe action has been taken over the last few days in areas such as Leith and Granton.

They say that the disarming of these SUVs comes in the wake of a few weeks of massive global escalation for the Tyre Extinguishers, with around 4,000 SUVs now disarmed, as well as Tyre Extinguisher groups springing up in Sweden, New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, and more planned.

It also comes as scientists declare that the recent deadly heatwave in South Asia was caused by climate change, underlining the need for "immediate action."

A spokesperson for the Edinburgh Tyre Extinguishers said: "Politicians talk, we act. We will defend ourselves from air pollution, climate change and unsafe roads, and we urge others to join us.

Edinburgh is a small city with good public transport. Nobody living in the centre of town needs to own one of these death machines."

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