55 Quotes by Peter 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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    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.

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    You don’t want to spend your life explaining yourself.

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    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.

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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.

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    Well I’m not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.

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    I don’t blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

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    The place where the system and people’s intentions meet is the political arena.

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