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

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

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.”