Words matter. These are the best Peter Garrett Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!
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.
I don’t blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.
Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.
Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.
That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.
I haven’t chosen to make an issue of faith.
The fact is that we take music very seriously.
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.
At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.
You don’t want to spend your life explaining yourself.
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.
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.
Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.
I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.
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.
I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.
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.
