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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 The Weather Makers (2005)

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

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

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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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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.”

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

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