Creativity Quote by Peter Garrett

Garrett’s line has the blunt, rally-stage clarity of someone who spent years trying to get a crowd to move in the same direction. “Huge issue” isn’t scientific phrasing; it’s moral scale-setting, a way to make climate change feel less like a policy file and more like a generational test. The sentence stacks adjectives - “strong, concerted, consistent and enduring” - like a drumbeat, insisting that the problem can’t be met with a single splashy announcement or a one-term reform. The repetition is the point: climate politics tends to run on bursts of attention and fast-decaying promises, and Garrett is calling out that rhythm as structurally unfit for the crisis.

The real target is baked into the choice of subject. Not markets, not consumers, not “all of us” - governments. That’s a refusal of the fashionable dodge that climate responsibility is mostly individual lifestyle. He’s arguing, implicitly, that only states can coordinate at scale: infrastructure, regulation, energy systems, industrial transitions. “Concerted” hints at the coordination problem across parties, jurisdictions, and election cycles; “enduring” is a quiet indictment of democratic short-termism and the way climate action is routinely traded for cheaper petrol or calmer headlines.

Coming from a musician who also entered public life, the subtext is credibility through frustration: you can raise awareness forever, but without institutional follow-through, awareness becomes a substitute for action. The quote is less a plea than a demand for stamina - the unglamorous kind politics rarely rewards.