Caroline Lucas Quotes

Communities and workers should be partners at the table, not waiting on the sidelines while government and the fossil fuel industry dictate climate policy.

We need policy change, and the most important thing people can do is to contribute and participate in the political process. We have to vote climate change deniers and people who will create subsidies for the fossil fuel industry out of office. We have to protest when bad decisions are being made about fracking or tar sands.

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

After spending three or four years interacting with the Bush administration, I realized they were not taking any actions to deal with climate change. So, I decided to give one talk, and then it snowballed into another talk and eventually to even protesting and getting arrested.

I wish politicians would put the environment at the centre of every agenda.

Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.

You can listen to them [environmental protesters] but don’t stop your project—don’t stop your thinking.

If we don't change, our species will not survive... Frankly, we may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

Why would we frack our countrysides and our watersheds when we know that energy efficiency would save more energy that natural gas can provide.

An important reason that we're in the trouble we are in with climate change is that we don't have a handle on our environment. We form public policy based on information that is wrong.

I'm not a scientist. If there is a risk to our environment, there will be no fracking.

I see these people in Princeton, my home town, as they go marching for control of climate. It is a wonderful thing. I love their enthusiasm, their energy, their devotion to something very worthwhile.

The planet will get better; it's us that won't be here because we'll destroy the environment.

Look, I don't have the millions of dollars that Exxon has. But I've got comedy. I've got satire. I've got stars.

If the Pope plans to spend the majority of his time advocating for flawed climate change policies, then I will not attend.

I get a lot of mud slung at me, and yes, I do take planes, but I feel that's my life. My life is to travel and also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of an irresponsible oil company.

Citizens and consumers are demanding that climate change and environmental issues be taken seriously.

Russia is a big polluter.

Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels.

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

I believe, along with Pope Francis and almost all scientists, that climate change is threatening this planet in horrendous ways, and that we have to be aggressive in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel and defeat the Keystone Pipeline.

Coal is my worst nightmare.

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be the impact of energy on the environment.

We should tax what we burn, not what we earn.