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"Coal fires are a notorious risk for coalmines. In North America whole towns have had to be relocated because of fires that have been uncontrollable.”"
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Tim FlanneryThe golden toad was the first documented victim of global warming. We — Tim Flannery
"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."
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Tim Flannery
Tim Flannery
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Timothy Fridtjof Flannery is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, conservationist, explorer, author, science communicator, activist, and public scientist. He is especially known for his 1994 book The Future Eaters, on the natural history of Australia, which was adapted for television in 2006, and his 2006 book The Weather Makers, about the effects of climate change in Aust
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"In our Gaian world, everything is connected to and influences everything else."
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"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."
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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."
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"Nothing in predictive climate science is more certain than the extinction of many of the world’s mountain-dwelling species."
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"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 potential and supported the industry until costs came down. Today Denmark leads the world in both wind power production and the building of turbines; and wind now supplies 21 percent of the country’s electricity. One striking aspect of the way that wind power has developed there is that some 85 percent of the capacity is owned by individuals or wind cooperatives, and so power lies in the hands of the people."
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