Moss Cass
Moses Henry Cass was an Australian doctor and politician. Winning the federal seat of Maribyrnong in 1969 against the Liberal incumbent, he held it for the Labor Party until 1983, when he retired from politics. A member of the party's left faction, he was Australia's first Minister for Environment and Conservation from 1972 to 1975, when he was moved into the Department of Media.
“We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to all the grandchildren of the world, rich and poor. We have not inherited this earth from our parents to do with it what we will. We have borrowed it from our children and we must be careful to use it in their interests as well as our own. Anyone who fails to recognise the basic validity of the proposition put in different ways by increasing numbers of writers, from Malthus to The Club of Rome, is either ignorant, a fool, or evil.”
Moss Cass