# Quote — Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers

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

- Author: [Tim Flannery](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-flannery.md)
- Book: [The Weather Makers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-flannery/the-weather-makers.md)
- Page: 160
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Flannery#The_Weather_Makers_(2005)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-flannery/the-weather-makers/in-our-gaian

## More from this book

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

p. 237 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-flannery/the-weather-makers/kyoto-questions-the.md)

> 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.

p. 231 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-flannery/the-weather-makers/it-is-imperative.md)

> 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.

p. 268 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-flannery/the-weather-makers/at-the-time.md)