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.
BOB BROWNAs a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
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With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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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We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million – that’s a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.
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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.
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The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
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So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive.
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