# Quote — Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers

> 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.

- 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: 119
- 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/the-golden-toad

## More from this book

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

p. 160 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-flannery/the-weather-makers/in-our-gaian.md)

> 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)