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What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.
Peter Garrett
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Peter Garrett
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: April 19
Environmentalist
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Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Peace Activist
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Sydney
NSW
Peter Robert Garrett
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Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.
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And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change I think that's quite an interesting statistic.
Peter Garrett
The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.
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In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.
Peter Garrett
It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.
Peter Garrett
Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.
Peter Garrett
The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.
Peter Garrett
This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.
Peter Garrett
Humans remain entirely atmosphere dependent, so there is no choice but to respond to extreme climatic behaviour and its many effects.
Peter Garrett
Climate change is so big that people who study it.. and many do.. need to speak to it. They must present scientific papers, they must appear in public, they must speak to the media and we must hear their voices. In order to get policy right, policymakers.. governments.. need to make decisions based on sound science.
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There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.
Peter Garrett
You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.
Peter Garrett
Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.
Peter Garrett
Life is very short be willing to serve.
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The Pro-Life cause is the preeminent cause of our time, and this struggle between the gospel of life and the culture of death will determine the destiny of mankind.
Peter Garrett
I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.
Peter Garrett
The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry.
Peter Garrett
Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.
Peter Garrett
There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.
Peter Garrett
Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.
Peter Garrett
