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Gail Bradbrook

(1972) Scientist

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Gail Bradbrook is a scientist.

Quick Facts About Gail Bradbrook

Born: April 30, 1972
Profession: Scientist

About Gail Bradbrook

[Wikidata] British environmental activist and molecular biophysicist who co-founded the environmental social movement Extinction Rebellion (born 1972)... | [Wikipedia] Gail Marie Bradbrook is a British environmental activist and molecular biophysicist who co-founded the environmental social movement Extinction Rebellion.

Quotes by Gail Bradbrook

When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.

Civil disobedience

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Whilst I'm all for psychedelic science - I think it's fantastic - I don't think we necessarily have time to wait for…

I think

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Human extinction in our children's lifetime, it should be your top news item every single day, what's happening, you should be holding…

Children

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We do need a vision that's uplifting, even whilst being realistic. And there's a lot in the world that already speaks to…

Being

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

Done

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It is not a campaign. It is a rebellion. We are in active rebellion against our government. The social contract is broken,…

Broken

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I just like swearing and being cheeky.

Being

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I want the planet protected for my children.

Children

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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…

Anti semitism

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It sounds like an extremist thing to say, but what do people think is going to happen to human beings when there's…

Enough

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What I would say is that in its first iteration, Extinction Rebellion is really about democracy, by calling in for these new…

Democracy

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I am no longer a scientist as I stopped in 2000. Science was quite a testing place to be as a working-class woman.

I am

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In the past when I was on protests, it was always people shouting out of the cars, 'get a job, get a…

Forward

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I do have a rebellious spirit.

Rebellious

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My dad was a miner at South Kirkby colliery. He went on strike but he didn't go to the picket line, he…

Dad

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We have to be bringing carbon out of the atmosphere, and we can't wait for these magical technologies that are somehow going…

Business

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

Drink

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The UN has given us until 2020 to change the course of humanity. If that doesn't happen human extinction in my children's…

Change

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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

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

Acting

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I have a humble background. My dad was a coal miner. My mum worked a receptionist. I was one of the first…

Dad

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

Collapse

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Nothing is being done of any real significance. Our demand is the government must tell the truth about the crisis we're in.…

Crisis

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We are killing life on Earth, we're in the sixth mass extinction event and it's possible that human beings will go extinct.…

Culture

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I'd been focused on trying to start civil disobedience since 2010. I'd tried many things and they hadn't worked. So I went…

Change

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