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Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.

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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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And living in Australia I am relatively well off.

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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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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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I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.

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The fact is that we take music very seriously.

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I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

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In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

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I don't think the band lacked ambition.

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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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Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.

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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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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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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 place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.

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I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

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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.

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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.

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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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Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.

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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.

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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.

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There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.

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