The golden toad was the first documented victim of global warming. We had killed it with our profligate use… — 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.
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