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

And it feels to me that one of the things we absolutely need matched

To make 110% sure of is that that is not the case, both because of the morality of that position, but also because if you do that, then you certainly don't bring people with you. matched

So I think in order to get us closer together, I think we could listen to more citizens' assemblies and to make sure that citizens' assemblies on climate are genuinely representative of the communities that they're in. matched

So it's not just people who think like me, but a genuine cross-section of the public who by and matched

Large when they're asked these questions, actually do come together with quite bold policies, much bolder than most governments, and do kind of point the way forward. matched

But I if I could just come back on one thing though, because I'm I get so frustrated when it's kind of said, well, you know, the UK only accounts for one percent of of emissions, so why why are we kind of so bothered? matched

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First of all, I would agree with Rory actually that offshoring, if if that means also that, for example, China is the country that then has to put the emissions associated with the products that it's making for us on their account sheet, that is fundamentally wrong. matched

And so we should take account of our consumption emissions, the emissions that are associated with what we import, as well as our production emissions. matched

But secondly, we're also responsible for historic. matched

Historic emissions and they matter. matched

You know, the UK was the first into the Industrial Revolution. matched

I think we've got a responsibility to be one of the first out of it into something better, because those emissions that we emitted many years ago are still part of the problem. matched

They have heated the environment. matched

They didn't go away. matched

And if you look at this issue about the number of countries who could say, well, we're only responsible for about 1% of total emissions, around 190. matched

ninety-four countries can claim to be less than five percent of the problem. matched

But together, if you add them together, they're responsible for just under half of the world's yearly emissions. matched

In uh in other words, we have a responsibility that goes far beyond that one percent. matched

Well, I think we need to make it so much clearer and so much more evident that the measures that we need, by and large, to address the climate crisis are ones that will benefit people's lives. matched

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