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

Bob Brown

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
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
I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
BOB BROWN

Mets Persons Reflected
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.
BOB BROWN

Reaction Spontaneous States Wealth
There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
BOB BROWN

Be Good Politically Presumption
For breakfast larger cups are used, and they’re more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn’t re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.
BOB BROWN

Black Breakfast Coffee Cream Filled
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
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
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.
BOB BROWN

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

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
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
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
The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .
BOB BROWN

Ambition Champion Economics
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.
BOB BROWN

Age Billion News Voters

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