For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.

Seeing the whales off James Price Point, mothers, babies, bull whales, seeing the count, going up into the thousands of these whales, the assurance that they will be ok with a mega port, mega ships and a huge factory ashore, is now clearly proven wrong.

With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.