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“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.”

Tim Flannery book The Weather Makers

Source: The Weather Makers (2005), Chapter 20 (p. 186)

Problem , Time

“If humans pursue a business-as-usual course for the first half of this century, I believe the collapse of civilization due to climate change becomes inevitable.”

Tim Flannery book The Weather Makers

Source: The Weather Makers (2005), Chapter 22 (p. 209)

Business , Change

“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 forest with bulldozers. It was as if, having experienced it, we did not recognize what happiness was.”

Tim Flannery book The Weather Makers

Source: The Weather Makers (2005), Chapter 12 (p. 119)

Cars , Happiness