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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.

Bob Brown

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
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
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
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.
BOB BROWN

Chosen Country Learning Money
I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
BOB BROWN

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

Mets Persons Reflected
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
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
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
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.
BOB BROWN

Culture Diversity Imagination Nation Positive
The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
BOB BROWN

Clouds Government Land
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
I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.
BOB BROWN

Difficult Kids Thinking

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