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 BROWNThe government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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 government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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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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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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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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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.
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I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.
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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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