Caroline Lucas
I think the Greens are posing some of the most important questions of our time, for example how we live sustainably on a planet of finite resources and a rising population, and how do we do that in a way that doesn't exceed environmental limits and which is fair.Collection: Environmental
I think we'd be crazy to do anything to the integrity of our policy package, which is progressive, and really dealing with the key social and environmental issues that we face. We're not about to ditch our commitment to nuclear disarmament, for example, to somehow make ourselves more electable.Collection: Environmental
I stand alongside everyone campaigning for better pay and conditions - they are paving the way for a fairer society.Collection: Society
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.Collection: Environmental
The Government needs to recognise that we live on a planet with finite resources - and start measuring our progress as a society by the quality of our lives, not the expansion of our GDP.Collection: Society
Renewable energy is not unaffordable as the fossil fuel giants would like us to believe.
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.
When threats become unspeakable, unshareable and even unreadable, their power over us only grows.
On many issues, Jeremy Corbyn and I are in agreement.
Addressing the climate and biodiversity crises requires us to radically change our economic models, moving away from economic growth as the over-riding measure of progress and moving instead towards improving health and wellbeing for people and nature. That means a different economic model taking us towards a sustainable economy.
Continuing down a path where profit is king is unsustainable for our society, our health and our planet.
We have lived with deadly levels of air pollution for years, which have made us more vulnerable to coronavirus.
I did try being a vegan.
Violence against women is not inevitable.
With the huge benefits of investing in renewables, energy efficiency and demand reduction becoming ever more obvious, it's clear that there needs to be far greater scrutiny of the policy decisions that are propelling Britain towards a nuclear future.
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.
Unquestionably, major transformation of the way the U.K. generates its heat and power is essential.
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.
Westminster's hardly a billboard for people-centred politics. Given its makeup, the term 'Commons' is pretty ironic, too.
My constituents are my employers - if I let them down I should be accountable to them.
Climate change demands a collective response. We can't expect other countries to act if we don't.
We cannot afford to burn the vast majority of known fossil fuel reserves.
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.
Our railways maintain a healthy economy and society. They keep businesses running and families close. They're a vital public service and must be treated as such.
A public, unified and integrated railway - hardly controversial.
The point about Roosevelt's New Deal was that it was visionary - for the 1930s.
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.
Other countries are developing well-being economies - we should do the same. That is the way to create a society which would stand the test of time - for everyone.
Humanity's inclination to be kind during the coronavirus crisis is an unprecedented, uplifting demonstration of solidarity.
The truth is that goodness is hardwired in humanity.
There is an important message that all political leaders should be taking from the response to coronavirus, and that is that people are prepared to make hard choices for the common good.
No more top-down politics with Westminster dictating what's right for every community. We must all be partners in designing a better future for our country.
Sometimes it takes a sudden change to make you realise just how bad things were.
Clear skies and clean air must become the new normal. We must re-design our cities, reclaiming the streets for cycling and walking, allowing people to walk along streets unpolluted by traffic.
We must not let the response to the coronavirus crisis make the climate and inequality crises even worse.
When this coronavirus crisis is over, what kind of society will we be? A more important question is what kind of society do we want to be?
It used to be said that war was the locomotive of history, with its power to accelerate change. The coronavirus crisis has that same power. It has already shown us who we really are, and how there is much more than unites than divides us. It has shown how governments need to work with their citizens to overcome threats or challenges.
The response to coronavirus has shown what can be done when governments put their mind to it.
Huge public spending and borrowing in the face of an existential crisis is clearly the right thing to do, as is putting people's health and wellbeing above the pursuit of economic growth.
Britain was once notorious as the 'dirty man of Europe' with polluted air, raw sewage pumped into the sea and protected sites being lost at a terrifying rate. E.U. laws and the threat of fines changed much of that.
Once upon a time the Conservative party was a broad church which embraced a range of views.
We always knew that whatever party Nigel Farage led - first UKIP and then the Brexit party - was basically a vehicle for his own political self-glorification and now he's proved it.
Britain is a parliamentary democracy. Power rests in Parliament, in the House of Commons, and the government - the executive - has to seek the consent of MPs for its legislation.
If a prime minister can suspend parliament to deliver a 'no deal' Brexit, what will the government try to do next with no democratic scrutiny or oversight?
The creation of regional mayors has done little to reduce the sense that all power is concentrated in Westminster, and all investment in London.
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.
Actions speak louder than Climate Emergency declarations.
Many are outspoken about the climate crisis, but conveniently ignore the fact that support for fossil fuels is not just incompatible with curbing emissions but dangerously counterproductive.
We can no longer allow special corporate interests to shape our political and financial decisions, while our citizens and communities cry for real climate action.
Nuclear weapons remain a costly distraction from the real security threats we face, like climate change.