Post by Flash on Oct 17, 2007 14:45:42 GMT -5
Bob Brown addresses the National Press Club
A decade ago The Greens had a very simple slogan - "No environment no economy".
Ten years ago it was a warning.
Now, in 2007; it is a description of our reality.
The farmers, the fishers, the tourism industry workers, the city dwellers on water restrictions - Australians everywhere - know this is true.
Without the environment, there is no economy.
Yet John Howard, the now self-defined 'climate change realist', persists with the same policies and the same thinking that has failed Australia for the past decade.
Kevin Rudd shows little sign of making that seismic shift in thinking required to address the most urgent matters confronting Australia today - climate change and water security.