Caroline Lucas Quotes

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Caroline Lucas

Profession : Politician

Birth : December 9, 1960

Actions speak louder than Climate Emergency declarations.

Caroline Lucas

In a fair society, the solution to unemployment is not to force people into workfare programmes which do little more than supply big companies with free labour. It's to create jobs that pay a living wage, for example, by investing in new sustainable infrastructure projects and boosting the jobs-rich low carbon economy.

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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.

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

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I don't think anybody voted for the Green Party without knowing what our position was on Brexit.

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Being an MP for a place you love is an extraordinary gift.

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

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Renewable energy is not unaffordable as the fossil fuel giants would like us to believe.

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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.

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I do think that if people are taking the time to think about their environmental footprint when it comes to how many flights they take, whether or not they have a 4X4, whether or not they are going to have a patio heater, then putting the question to themselves about how many kids they are going to have is a reasonable thing to do.

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The only newspaper in our house when I was growing up was the Daily Mail, and we would never have dreamt of discussing politics around the dinner table. So my involvement in politics came about through activism.

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Fading are the days in which a cohort of towering power stations ran the game (and captured all the profits).

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The billions being spent on Trident replacement would be much better spent on investing in developing the infrastructure we need for a zero-carbon economy, as well as in protecting public services. To use the money on a project that makes Britain and the world a far more dangerous place is politically irresponsible and economically obscene.

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

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We know that Brexit would make our poorest communities poorer still. That it would make the powerless even less able to effect change.

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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.

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

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We promote new fossil fuel infrastructure, from airport expansion and coal mines in the U.K. to oil pipelines in the U.S. Investments are meant to build and secure our shared future - but all these fossil fuel investments are directly fuelling the climate crisis that threatens to undermine that future.

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We have always been a party that has had policies on everything, from education to the economy to the environment. We have always said that, if you are serious about the environment, then the policies that you need to change most are the economic policies.

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