Quotes from Gail Bradbrook

I was in India as scientist doing post-doctoral research for about four months. I fell in love with India.

I did a PhD in molecular bio-physics.

We've been at war with nature. Now we need to apologize and clean up.

People think that climate change is something happening to somebody else at some other time but it's coming home.

I also personally think - as do many others - that a shift on consciousness is needed toward one where we understand that we are in a relationship with the earth and all living beings, that we have agency. That life is worth fighting for.

I just like swearing and being cheeky.

I want the system to change so I think you could call that a revolution.

We could easily be facing starvation in the U.K. if the weather effect continues as it is. We need to be building resilience in our communities.

We need to have a grown-up conversation about what kind of system do we need, both politically and legally and culturally and economically, that will stop this ridiculous, outrageous harming that we're doing to ourselves and the planet.

So many of us who've been thinking about the ecological crisis have had this horrible creeping feeling, like nothing was getting done and it was getting worse.

We want an economy that grows health and wellbeing, not debt and carbon emissions. An economy that prepares and protects us from shocks to come, rather than making them worse. An economy that shares resources to meet all our needs, regardless of background. An economy that lets us live.

Whilst I'm all for psychedelic science - I think it's fantastic - I don't think we necessarily have time to wait for the science to tell us these medicines are useful. The indigenous cultures have already shown us the ways.

We do need a vision that's uplifting, even whilst being realistic. And there's a lot in the world that already speaks to that, like tikkun olam in the Jewish faith.

It's only by being disruptive that you get people to have a conversation about an issue.

It sounds like an extremist thing to say, but what do people think is going to happen to human beings when there's not enough food?

If they come at us with tear gas or batons or mass arrests then you get a kind of upswell because they become repressive of people demanding what the public actually want.

I want the planet protected for my children.

We need a grownup conversation about why our political economy is killing life on Earth.

Economic growth tends to require the taking of resources from the Earth. So something has to change on a debt-based economy.

One of the tensions in XR are people who want to slow down and be strategic and then people who think it's an emergency, let's get out on the street now. There have been conflicts and disagreements.

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

Given the scale of the ecological crisis we are facing this is the appropriate scale of expansion. Occupying the streets to bring about change as our ancestors have done before us. Only this kind of large-scale economic disruption can rapidly bring the government to the table to discuss our demands. We are prepared to risk it all for our futures.

Love has a cost, and it's grief. Because we will always be separated from things we love. That's the nature and price of life, right? But, when you love something deeply, then you're courageous.

We've tickled the nose of the tiger, the establishment are frothing at the mouth.