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 BROWNWe 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.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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.
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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!
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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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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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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 .
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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.
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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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There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
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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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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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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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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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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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![Bob Brown Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/grey-we-calculate-the-amount-spent-by-brethre.jpg)
![Bob Brown Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/blue-we-calculate-the-amount-spent-by-brethre.jpg)
![Bob Brown Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/red-we-calculate-the-amount-spent-by-brethre.jpg)
![Bob Brown Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/brown-we-calculate-the-amount-spent-by-brethre.jpg)
![Bob Brown Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/white-we-calculate-the-amount-spent-by-brethre.jpg)

