A Kennedy in the environment's court

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/a-kennedy-in-the-environments-court/2008/02/20/1203467183540.html

WE ARE thinking about the environment in the wrong way, says Robert Kennedy jnr, the US ecologist and son of presidential hopeful Bobby Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968.

"There's this so-called divide between economics and the environment," Mr Kennedy said. "The thinking is not good enough. Nature is the infrastructure of the economy, it's the best investment."

Speaking for an hour without notes at a solar power conference in Adelaide yesterday, covering territory from the preservation of New York's Hudson River by a coalition of Vietnam veterans to why the theme of wilderness continues to emerge in the Bible and the Koran, Mr Kennedy held 600 delegates enthralled.

Mr Kennedy, a lawyer who has taken on and won dozens of major environmental lawsuits in the US, holds simultaneous, passionate beliefs on environmental protection and free-market economics.


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"In 100 per cent of circumstances, good environmental policy is good economic policy" … Robert Kennedy jnr in Adelaide yesterday.