Activist

If your government isn't protecting you and the future of your kids, you have a duty to rebel, and a right to rebel.

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.

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.

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.

You have to keep building. Movements have to move forward.

We've tickled the nose of the tiger, the establishment are frothing at the mouth.

We had a 25-step process coming up with the name Extinction Rebellion.

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.

People think that climate change is something happening to somebody else at some other time but it's coming home.

Economic growth tends to require the taking of resources from the Earth. So something has to change on a debt-based economy.

I did a PhD in molecular bio-physics.

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.

It's only by being disruptive that you get people to have a conversation about an issue.

Everyone is into yoni steaming. I've done it once.

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.

The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens.

I did yoga in the cell, meditated, and slept well; somebody brings you some food and drink. I've been arrested four times now.

I want the system to change so I think you could call that a revolution.

The economic system is acting like a cancer on humanity. The regulatory system, the accountants, the legal firms support the metastasizing of this cancer.

I planted trees but the idea that you can offset carbon is nonsense - planting trees is more a way of acknowledging harm and apologising.