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

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.”

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.

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