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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

Bob Brown

I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there’s hope for many other changes.
BOB BROWN

Changed Homosexually Lifetime Optimistic Repression
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.
BOB BROWN

Age Earth Past Resulting Together
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?
BOB BROWN

Environment Lucky Reality
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.
BOB BROWN

Flower Forests Wall
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
BOB BROWN

Action Democracy Earth
When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!
BOB BROWN

Century Grandchildren Great Smile
As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
BOB BROWN

Generations Goal Green
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.
BOB BROWN

Bang People Years
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.
BOB BROWN

Being Humanity Psychological Resonate Well Yet
I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God – by which I mean accepting all that I don’t know.
BOB BROWN

God Mean Men Religious
$Bob Brown Quote - With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.$

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.
BOB BROWN

Children Dollar Money Sunken War
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.
BOB BROWN

Community Democracy Depth
So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive.
BOB BROWN

Eye Grandchildren Heart
One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
BOB BROWN

Endurance Google Records
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.
BOB BROWN

Amount Campaigns Groups Tasmania
The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
BOB BROWN

Be Kind Planets Reality

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