Caroline Lucas

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487 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Aug

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The Rest Is Politics · Will Climate Action Go Backwards Under Burnham? · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

are at in local communities. matched

And that's why I think, in a sense, this is our last chance to get that right and to really do that. matched

To take it back to the emergency briefing, I think one of the things we also struggle with in this country in particular is a kind of infantilization of the public. matched

It's almost as if, you know, if you're asking why won't they show this briefing and why wouldn't they publish that suppressed report, I think part of it is that somehow they don't quite trust the public with that information. matched

And this was really brought home to me just recently when I was reading a fantastic book by David Schuckman, you know, who used to be the BBC. matched

Yeah, yeah. matched

Climate correspondent. matched

And his book is called The Response. matched

And he was talking about in Lincolnshire how there's real worries about the repeat of the kind of storm surge that happened in 1953 and killed 300 people. matched

And so a lot of people wanted to put some signs up in Lincolnshire telling people where they should go in the event of such a thing happening again. matched

And you know what? matched

They actually had to end up with signs. matched

If you go to Lincolnshire and you can see them, there are these. matched

Signs that say E R. matched

Do you know what that stands for? matched

No, it stands for evacuation route. matched

But they wouldn't put evacuation route on it in case it alarmed people. matched

So you can go around Lincolnshire and see signs saying ER and an arrow, and presumably people thinking WTF, you know, what on earth is this going on about here? matched

The idea that we wouldn't spell that out. matched

Whereas in Japan, you know, I can promise you they have a picture of a person fleeing and and waves coming, it just seemed to sum up for me this kind of, as I say, matched

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