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Tim Flannery

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Total quotes: 3

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Tim Flannery

Birthname

AKA: Tim Flannery

Birthday: January 28, 1956

Birthplace: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Educated At: La Trobe University, University Of New South Wales

Nationality: Australia

Occupations: Paleontologist, Zoologist, Environmentalist, Biologist

Total quotes: 3

“One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood.”

— Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

Tagged: Climate Change, cliche

“While we sit in our air-conditioned homes and eat, drink and make merry like cattle in a feedlot without the slightest thought about the consequences of our consumption of water, food and energy, we only hasten the destruction—in the long term—of our kind.”

— Tim Flannery, Here on Earth: an Argument for Hope

Tagged: Air Conditioning, cattle, food, Water, Energy, Climate Change

“Some time this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all natural forces. Then, the insurance industry and the courts will no longer be able to talk of Acts of God, because even the most unreasonable of us could have foreseen the consequences. Instead, the judiciary will be faced with apportioning guilt and responsibility for human actions resulting from the new climate.”

— Tim Flannery

Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Acts of God, Guilt, Failed Predictions

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