Peter Garrett
Peter Garrett
Peter Robert Garrett AMis an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and former politician...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 April 1953
CountryAustralia
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Climate change will have a significant impact on the environment and on social well-being if the current projections continue through this century.
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Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.
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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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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.
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It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.
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The fact is that we take music very seriously.
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Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.
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As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that.
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I tend to define what we've done much more by the actual substance of what we've created than by whether we've sold 50 or 50,000 records.
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The thing I object to more than anything else is that we've got Australian foreign policy being determined by senior officials in Washington.
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Life is very short; be willing to serve.
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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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But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.
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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.