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.
And living in Australia I am relatively well off.
Climate change is so big that people who study it.. and many do.. need to speak to it. They must present scientific papers, they must appear in public, they must speak to the media and we must hear their voices. In order to get policy right, policymakers.. governments.. need to make decisions based on sound science.
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.
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.
Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.
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.
Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.
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.
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.
Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.
I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.
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.
