Tim Flannery

"This problem may not occur for several hundred years, but by the time we see the first signs, it will be far too late to do anything about it."

"At the time the Danes decided to back wind power, the cost of electricity produced this way was many times greater than that produced by fossil fuels. The Danish government, however, could see its pot…"

"Some time this century, the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all natural factors."

"Kyoto questions the philosophies underpinning societies such as America and Australia, which cling to the myth of limitless growth."

"The golden toad was the first documented victim of global warming. We had killed it with our profligate use of coal-fired electricity and our oversize cars just as surely as if we had flattened its fo…"

"It is imperative to get the smelters to pay a fair price for their power; otherwise, market forces can never induce them to limit their emissions."

"Nothing in predictive climate science is more certain than the extinction of many of the world’s mountain-dwelling species."

"In our Gaian world, everything is connected to and influences everything else."