The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth. Read Summary
Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply. Read Summary
Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation? Read Summary
Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It's also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people. Read Summary
We need every person on Earth to acknowledge that climate change is real and encourage each other and our leaders to address the challenge. Read Summary
At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different? Read Summary
The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on. Read Summary
We can't just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow. Read Summary
I want the politicians to prioritise the climate question, focus on the climate and treat it like a crisis. Read Summary
Of course, individual change doesn't make much difference in a holistic picture... but we need both systemic change and individual change. Read Summary
When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there's no point in anything. Read Summary
I'm not saying that people should stop flying. I'm just saying it needs to be easier to be climate neutral. Read Summary
People are unaware of what is going on. When I talk to people, they know the basics, they know the planet is warming because of greenhouse gases... but they don't know the actual consequence of that. Read Summary
I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange. They keep saying that climate change is an existential threat and the most important issue of all. And yet they just carry on like before. Read Summary
At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn't think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn't be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn't understand how that added up. Read Summary
We are living in the beginning of a mass extinction and our climate is breaking down. Read Summary
I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. Read Summary
If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence, how could we just continue like before? Why were there no restrictions? Why wasn't it made illegal? To me, that did not add up. Read Summary
Nothing is being done to stop the climate and ecological emergency from happening and to secure the future wellbeing for future generations. Read Summary
To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible. Read Summary