The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
BOB BROWNWe are all born bonded to nature; that’s why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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Our bodies and our minds are fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping.
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We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
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Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet’s 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
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In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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We are all born bonded to nature; that’s why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that’s where our investment should be going as well.
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Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it…our psychological beings resonate with it.
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Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.
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There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
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Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth’s largesse.
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