Quotes from Caroline Lucas

We live in a country of grotesque inequalities.

We must not let the response to the coronavirus crisis make the climate and inequality crises even worse.

Violence against women is not inevitable.

Everything from the infrastructure we build to the products we use must now be aimed squarely at building a zero-carbon world.

Coronavirus has exposed for all what many of us already knew - some of our most important workers have barely enough to live on, and millions are condemned to financial insecurity, inequality and food poverty.

We have lived with deadly levels of air pollution for years, which have made us more vulnerable to coronavirus.

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.

Unquestionably, major transformation of the way the U.K. generates its heat and power is essential.

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.

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.

On many issues, Jeremy Corbyn and I are in agreement.

I joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1980s and protested at Greenham Common.

Petra Kelly is my inspiration, one of the founders of the German Greens.

The truth is that goodness is hardwired in humanity.

Banks and investors have poured money into dirty energy and high-carbon for decades. While no single policy is a magic bullet for the climate crisis, there is also no way of solving it that doesn't involve a fundamental reimagining of the role of our financial system.

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.

Would the media insist on having a Holocaust-denier to balance any report about the Second Word War?

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 Green Party is full of motivated, driven people who want to make change happen as fast as possible.

On the Palace of Westminster: There is a sense of entitlement that pervades this place like a colourless and odourless gas, creeping along the corridors and under every door. P.10

Overall, becoming a carbon-neutral country would involve changes in our behaviour, but these are modest compared with the changes that will be forced upon us if we do nothing.

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.

To the extent that Bernie Sanders was about building a movement of people where challenging things that up until then were unchallengeable, then absolutely we want to be seen in that mould.

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.