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The Rest of the World is Watching
The Rest of the World is Watching brings together, for the first time, the thoughts of Green activists, politicians, commentators, and writers, to provide a provocative insight into the internationally famous Green Experiment in Tasmania, and its significance of Australia. Home of the world's first Green party in 1972, Tasmania continues at the vanguard of the world environment movement with the Greens' historic rise to win the balance of power in 1989.
The Rest of the World is Watching records the great Green battles, from the tragedy of Lake Pedder to the inspirational victories on the Franklin River and at Wesley Vale; looks at the new Green philosophy that is changing the way we view ourselves and our world; analyses the consequences and politics of the greenhouse effect; examines the successes and failures of the Green/ALP Accord and conclues with Bob Brown's vision for the future.
The Rest of the World is Watching is more than a record of a historic movement. It is an indispensable guide to the new ideas and politics that will shape the 21st century, and the inevitable effects they will have on all our lives. It shows how it is possible for us to make a Green future now, not only in Tasmania, but everywhere.
This is not another book for the ninties. It's a ticket for safe passage in the next century.
The Rest of the World is Watching records the great Green battles, from the tragedy of Lake Pedder to the inspirational victories on the Franklin River and at Wesley Vale; looks at the new Green philosophy that is changing the way we view ourselves and our world; analyses the consequences and politics of the greenhouse effect; examines the successes and failures of the Green/ALP Accord and conclues with Bob Brown's vision for the future.
The Rest of the World is Watching is more than a record of a historic movement. It is an indispensable guide to the new ideas and politics that will shape the 21st century, and the inevitable effects they will have on all our lives. It shows how it is possible for us to make a Green future now, not only in Tasmania, but everywhere.
This is not another book for the ninties. It's a ticket for safe passage in the next century.
272 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1990
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Cassandra Pybus
27 books20 followersCassandra Pybus is ARC Professorial Fellow in the School of History and Classics at the University of Tasmania. She is the author of many books including Community of Thieves and The Devil and James McAuley, winner of the 2000 Adelaide Festival Award for non-fiction.
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January 17, 2010
This collection of essays tracks the progress of Greens from the death of Lake Pedder, past the Wesley Vale and Franklin campaigns to April 1990, a year after the Green Independents signed the Accord with Labor allowing them to form government in Tasmania. The essays range from lyrical pieces praising nature to critiques of the Greens and their strategies and philosophies. Authors include Christine Milne and Bob Brown, who have since become Senators in Federal Parliament; Richard Flanagan, now a famous author; and numerous other luminaries of the Tasmanian conservation movement.
Bob Brown wraps up the volume with an essay that has the warmth and cadence of one of his speeches. It touches on many of the themes of the book and set me off on numerous daydreams before I reached the end.
I found a lot of this still very relevant today. The book provides a nice little portrait of ecologism in Tassie in the 70s and 80s: the birthplace of something big.
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