Bob Brown explores if democracy is doing enough for the planet

Monitor staff

25 February 2013: Former senator and leader of the Australian Greens, Dr Bob Brown, argued that a faulty democracy is having a negative impact on the biosphere during his delivery of the University of Canberra’s Institute for Applied Ecology 2013 Krebs Lecture.

Adjunct Professor Charles Krebs, Dr Bob Brown and Professor David Choquenot. Photo: Michelle McAulay

Dr Brown, an environmental activist and chair of the Bob Brown Foundation, delivered his public lecture Is Democracy Failing the Biosphere? on 18 February to a packed audience. 


The Krebs Lecture is an annual celebration of the extraordinary contribution Adjunct Professor Charles Krebs has made to our understanding and appreciation of the natural world.