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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Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.
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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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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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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.
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The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.
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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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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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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.