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I did a PhD in molecular bio-physics.
I just like swearing and being cheeky.
I want the planet protected for my children.
There is just arrogance in even having an opinion.
You have to keep building. Movements have to move forward.
We've been at war with nature. Now we need to apologize and clean up.
We had a 25-step process coming up with the name Extinction Rebellion.
We've tickled the nose of the tiger, the establishment are frothing at the mouth.
Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.
It's only by being disruptive that you get people to have a conversation about an issue.
We need a grownup conversation about why our political economy is killing life on Earth.
People think that climate change is something happening to somebody else at some other time but it's coming home.
When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.
I am no longer a scientist as I stopped in 2000. Science was quite a testing place to be as a working-class woman.
If your government isn't protecting you and the future of your kids, you have a duty to rebel, and a right to rebel.
Some people see protesting as a bit of a dirty thing, and certainly the idea of getting arrested was not on people's radar.
Economic growth tends to require the taking of resources from the Earth. So something has to change on a debt-based economy.
But the main thing is to give people permission to feel it and to put grief at the heart of what Extinction Rebellion's about.
I did yoga in the cell, meditated, and slept well; somebody brings you some food and drink. I've been arrested four times now.
The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens.
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?
I planted trees but the idea that you can offset carbon is nonsense - planting trees is more a way of acknowledging harm and apologising.
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.
I have a humble background. My dad was a coal miner. My mum worked a receptionist. I was one of the first people in my family to go to university.
My dad was a miner at South Kirkby colliery. He went on strike but he didn't go to the picket line, he just put his feet up and got in my mum's way.
The UN has given us until 2020 to change the course of humanity. If that doesn't happen human extinction in my children's lifetime is a possibility.
We need a revolution in consciousness to overturn the system we live in, to strengthen our democracy, to find courage and give hope to our children.
The economic system is acting like a cancer on humanity. The regulatory system, the accountants, the legal firms support the metastasizing of this cancer.
Human extinction in our children's lifetime, it should be your top news item every single day, what's happening, you should be holding politicians to account.
I'm horrified to have been alerted to anti-Semitism showing up in a Facebook group I'm associated with. As a busy mum I don't have time to monitor everything.
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 oppose a system that generates huge wealth through astonishing innovation but is fatally unable to distribute fairly and provide universal access to its spoils.
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.
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.
It is not a campaign. It is a rebellion. We are in active rebellion against our government. The social contract is broken, the governments aren't protecting us and it's down to us now.
I would support a mass civil disobedience where we take medicine to tell the state that they have absolutely no right to control our consciousness and to define our spiritual practice.
We are killing life on Earth, we're in the sixth mass extinction event and it's possible that human beings will go extinct. We're in a culture that doesn't want you to think about that.
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.
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.
I've always been interested in how things change, in social change. I was involved in the animal rights movement as a young woman, I've been involved in thinking about gender and issues around racism and so on.
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 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.
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.
We need to go to net zero carbon really quickly. And we're also asking for a people's assembly so people can decide how the change happens. We'll know when governments are doing different things, it could feel like a war, a beautiful war.
We're not just being dramatic talking about a human extinction - that's the pathway we're on. We have to look at the bigger picture. If your child had cancer and it was unlikely they were going to survive, you'd do everything in your power to fight it.
What I would say is that in its first iteration, Extinction Rebellion is really about democracy, by calling in for these new democratic forms for people to have their power. And frankly, in many countries of the world, democracy is in just absolute shambles.
This is not a slow movement of change. It's a shift in the consciousness of each of us. It is a collective shift. It involves facing grief and trauma and undoing our numbness and our narcissism and our indulgence that we have in this privileged western society.
What happens if you stand passively by the side of the road with a placard saying, you know, 'Stop climate change' is you just get ignored. When you get on the street and block it, people start to have a conversation about this existential situation that we're in.
The absolute key issue is: how do you create enough political pressure? It's up to us to create that political will and there are tried and tested techniques for doing that. So we're talking about the need for civil disobedience that escalates into a rebellion and uprising.
Nothing is being done of any real significance. Our demand is the government must tell the truth about the crisis we're in. And that includes working with communities to build resilience... We want to go to net carbon zero emissions by 2015 and reduce our consumption levels.