Learning from Easter Island – Crunch Time for Planet Earth

Scoop – Speech by Russel Norman, Green Party Co-Leader Green Party AGM, Upper Hutt (New Zealand)

Tena Kotou History is the victory of remembering over forgetting. And it is by remembering the history of humankind that we can avoid repeating it. Sometimes, in order to remember our history, we have to tell unpleasant truths about the past, and in order to serve our community we have to say things that may make us look like doomsayers about the future. Of course we are not.

We are optimists and that’s why we are involved in politics and are trying to do something about it, but we are also realists and are obligated to serve our community by telling the truth about the potential futures that may lie ahead of us depending on the decisions we make now. I wanted to start by talking a little about the history of Easter Island.

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