Gail Bradbrook

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

— Gail Bradbrook

We could easily be facing starvation in the U.K. if the weather effect continues as it is. We need to be building…

— Gail Bradbrook

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

— Gail Bradbrook

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

— Gail Bradbrook

I would support a mass civil disobedience where we take medicine to tell the state that they have absolutely no right to…

— Gail Bradbrook

Love has a cost, and it's grief. Because we will always be separated from things we love. That's the nature and price…

— Gail Bradbrook

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.

— Gail Bradbrook

There is just arrogance in even having an opinion.

— Gail Bradbrook

For years I have engaged with this ecological crisis on an intellectual level, the mounting evidence, the science... but now I have…

— Gail Bradbrook

We've been at war with nature. Now we need to apologize and clean up.

— Gail Bradbrook

What happens if you stand passively by the side of the road with a placard saying, you know, 'Stop climate change' is…

— Gail Bradbrook

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

— Gail Bradbrook

I did a PhD in molecular bio-physics.

— Gail Bradbrook

The big goal - and it sounds crazy - is to save as much life on Earth as possible.

— Gail Bradbrook

So many of us who've been thinking about the ecological crisis have had this horrible creeping feeling, like nothing was getting done…

— Gail Bradbrook

We need to have a grown-up conversation about what kind of system do we need, both politically and legally and culturally and…

— Gail Bradbrook

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

— Gail Bradbrook

We have a system that is deeply narcissistic - the consumer sort of capitalist culture. It's all about me and now and…

— Gail Bradbrook

We oppose a system that generates huge wealth through astonishing innovation but is fatally unable to distribute fairly and provide universal access…

— Gail Bradbrook

I've always been interested in how things change, in social change. I was involved in the animal rights movement as a young…

— Gail Bradbrook

I was in India as scientist doing post-doctoral research for about four months. I fell in love with India.

— Gail Bradbrook

If they come at us with tear gas or batons or mass arrests then you get a kind of upswell because they…

— Gail Bradbrook

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

— Gail Bradbrook

One of the tensions in XR are people who want to slow down and be strategic and then people who think it's…

— Gail Bradbrook

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

— Gail Bradbrook