GAIL BRADBROOK

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

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.

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

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.

There is just arrogance in even having an opinion.

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.

I do have a rebellious spirit.

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

Whilst I'm all for psychedelic science - I think it's fantastic - I don't think we necessarily have time to wait for the science to tell us these medicines are useful. The indigenous cultures have already shown us the ways.

Given the scale of the ecological crisis we are facing this is the appropriate scale of expansion. Occupying the streets to bring about change as our ancestors have done before us. Only this kind of large-scale economic disruption can rapidly bring the government to the table to discuss our demands. We are prepared to risk it all for our futures.

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

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.

It is not a campaign. It is a rebellion. We are in active rebellion against our government. The social contract is broken, the governments aren't protecting us and it's down to us now.

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

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

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

I would support a mass civil disobedience where we take medicine to tell the state that they have absolutely no right to control our consciousness and to define our spiritual practice.

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

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

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

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

We need to go to net zero carbon really quickly. And we're also asking for a people's assembly so people can decide how the change happens. We'll know when governments are doing different things, it could feel like a war, a beautiful war.

If they come at us with tear gas or batons or mass arrests then you get a kind of upswell because they become repressive of people demanding what the public actually want.

I want the planet protected for my children.

In the past when I was on protests, it was always people shouting out of the cars, 'get a job, get a bath, get a haircut.' So, am I a dole-scrounging hippie, or am I middle class and privileged? Just by stepping forward, somehow you become scrutinized, rather than the actual issues that count.