"After all, what's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions, if in the end all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true."
— W:Tim Flannery

January 1, 1970

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In Annals Of Chemistry: In the Face of Doubt by Paul Brodeur, The New Yorker, June 9, 1986. Cited in Tim Flannery, Atmosphere of Hope. Solutions to the Climate Crisis, Penguin Books, 2015, page 1 .