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Source: BBC TV News

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Date: 21/09/2014

Event: Emma Thompson: "We have to be carbon-free by 2030"

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• Emma Thompson: Hollywood actress and climate campaigner

Emma Thompson: There's been no legislation that's really made a difference. We have to be carbon-free by 2030, and that's going to... that's going to be hard. Because the vested interests in fossil fuels are enormous. It's a bit like getting someone who's really, really hooked on nicotine to give up cigarettes. I mean, nicotine was a great idea at the time. And fossil fuels were a great idea at the time. They've changed our lives completely. We didn't realise what they were doing. But now we do know, you've got 97% of climatologists - the science is all there. Anyone who tries to deny it now, now looks a little bit bonkers, like that guy who thinks that we're all, you know, lizards.