Words matter. These are the best Caroline Lucas Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Clear skies and clean air must become the new normal. We must re-design our cities, reclaiming the streets for cycling and walking, allowing people to walk along streets unpolluted by traffic.
Britain was once notorious as the ‘dirty man of Europe’ with polluted air, raw sewage pumped into the sea and protected sites being lost at a terrifying rate. E.U. laws and the threat of fines changed much of that.
We should entrust our young people with a voice to express their views on what their futures should look like.
We must have the right to name our fears and laugh at those who seek to scare us – or risk giving in to terrorists.
A girl named Rachel transformed my childhood. Life was safe, suburban and comfortable, but ours was a home without books. I met her aged 11, and she introduced me to the joys of poetry and literature. It opened my mind to ideas I could never have dreamed of.
The people who serve your fast food lunch or your after-work drinks deserve dignity – and if big companies don’t start paying them enough for a decent standard of living, they have the power to close these businesses. But no one goes on strike lightly.
I think if people thought we were just like the other parties and would ditch our policies at the first moment we thought we wouldn’t get a majority, then we’d become just like all the other parties.
I accept that as an elected politician I have a number of other tools that I can use to bring about change but I would also say that the Green party remains committed to appropriate non-violent direct action and I think it is a tool in some cases that is legitimate.
We must not let the response to the coronavirus crisis make the climate and inequality crises even worse.
I did try being a vegan.
Fading are the days in which a cohort of towering power stations ran the game (and captured all the profits).
Clear skies and clean air must become the new normal. We must re-design our cities, reclaiming the streets for cycling and walking, allowing people to walk along streets unpolluted by traffic.
When it comes to topping the ‘least popular’ lists, MPs have form. Typically, we’re pipped to the post only by bankers and traffic wardens.
We need to block dirty diesels getting public money – no question there.
Sometimes it takes a sudden change to make you realise just how bad things were.
My constituents are my employers – if I let them down I should be accountable to them.
We must have the right to name our fears and laugh at those who seek to scare us – or risk giving in to terrorists.
We can no longer allow special corporate interests to shape our political and financial decisions, while our citizens and communities cry for real climate action.
Renewable energy is not unaffordable as the fossil fuel giants would like us to believe.
I don’t think politics just happens in Parliament. It happens on the streets and in classrooms.
On many issues, Jeremy Corbyn and I are in agreement.
When it comes to topping the ‘least popular’ lists, MPs have form. Typically, we’re pipped to the post only by bankers and traffic wardens.
In the public mind, when they think of politicians, sadly they probably tend to think of men in grey suits doing work behind closed doors at Westminster. I want to get away from the idea.
In the public mind, when they think of politicians, sadly they probably tend to think of men in grey suits doing work behind closed doors at Westminster. I want to get away from the idea.
With pollution from traffic a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, we should be building a transport and planning system that makes car-free travel for shorter distances the norm for the majority.
The one thing we have that the other parties do not have is a political integrity. No one thinks you join the Green party because you’re politically ambitious, or have your own agenda.
As more and more people demand fair pay, the Government and big corporations are going to have to take notice.
Advanced industrialised economies like ourselves cannot afford to go on growing, particularly if we want to give people in poorer countries a chance of being able to at least meet their basic needs.
Climate change demands a collective response. We can’t expect other countries to act if we don’t.
The point about Roosevelt’s New Deal was that it was visionary – for the 1930s.
I think if people thought we were just like the other parties and would ditch our policies at the first moment we thought we wouldn’t get a majority, then we’d become just like all the other parties.
For expectant mothers there’s so much to think about – and so much to prepare for. In amongst those many thoughts and all the excitement are also some concerns, not least the serious worries for many about what will happen at work.
We have lived with deadly levels of air pollution for years, which have made us more vulnerable to coronavirus.
There are lots of things one can criticise about the European parliament, but it does work pretty well in terms of the speed with which you can vote, the fact that there’s room to sit, the fact that there are offices when you arrive.
Petra Kelly is my inspiration, one of the founders of the German Greens.
I’ve been in the Green party for a very long time – when was it, 1986 – and I joined the party because I seriously wanted the party to have influence.
We must instil our future leaders with the expertise, knowledge and skills to prevent climate breakdown and restore nature to health.
The truth is that goodness is hardwired in humanity.
We must not let the response to the coronavirus crisis make the climate and inequality crises even worse.
The models that the other parties have used where you have a very powerful leader squashing any kind of independent ideas from the grass roots is not very attractive to the electorate.
I am a longstanding critic of British foreign policy – and an opponent of the authoritarian, quasi-imperialist, racist, homophobic politics of Putin.
I come from a very conventional and non-political background.
Politicians can either keep listening to a small number of polluting fossil fuel companies, who’re keen to profit from keeping us hooked on oil, coal and gas, or they can listen to the majority of other voices from civil society to business calling for an urgent switch to low and zero carbon heat and power.
GDP simply measures the circulation of money in the economy, not whether or not the outcome of using that money is positive or negative.
Everything from the infrastructure we build to the products we use must now be aimed squarely at building a zero-carbon world.
Nuclear weapons remain a costly distraction from the real security threats we face, like climate change.
With pollution from traffic a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, we should be building a transport and planning system that makes car-free travel for shorter distances the norm for the majority.
Politics is about everything we do from the moment we get up in the morning to the minute we go to bed at night. It’s something everybody and anybody can be involved in.
The people who serve your fast food lunch or your after-work drinks deserve dignity – and if big companies don’t start paying them enough for a decent standard of living, they have the power to close these businesses. But no one goes on strike lightly.
The Green Party is full of motivated, driven people who want to make change happen as fast as possible.
Britain was once notorious as the ‘dirty man of Europe’ with polluted air, raw sewage pumped into the sea and protected sites being lost at a terrifying rate. E.U. laws and the threat of fines changed much of that.
I think there is a role for non-violent direct action when democratic channels have failed.
Britain is a parliamentary democracy. Power rests in Parliament, in the House of Commons, and the government – the executive – has to seek the consent of MPs for its legislation.
Humanity’s inclination to be kind during the coronavirus crisis is an unprecedented, uplifting demonstration of solidarity.
I’ve been arrested a few times. The most high-profile instance was when protesting at the fracking site in Balcombe. It’s an industry which will undermine our chances of tackling climate change.
If a prime minister can suspend parliament to deliver a ‘no deal’ Brexit, what will the government try to do next with no democratic scrutiny or oversight?
A public, unified and integrated railway – hardly controversial.
There is an important message that all political leaders should be taking from the response to coronavirus, and that is that people are prepared to make hard choices for the common good.
The truth is that goodness is hardwired in humanity.
We live in a country of grotesque inequalities.
I don’t think anybody voted for the Green Party without knowing what our position was on Brexit.
The Government needs to recognise that we live on a planet with finite resources – and start measuring our progress as a society by the quality of our lives, not the expansion of our GDP.
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