Julian Cribb

Canberra

Science author with a focus on the tenfold human existential crisis: food security, climate, extinction, planetary pollution, nukes, resources, AI, population.

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A plan for human survival

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Julian Cribb

Among the worlds many pressing needs, the most urgent of all is a plan for human survival. And Australia should be the country to lead its creation. At present no country or international body has one. What we currently have is a chaotic road to avoidable disaster, driven by ten vast, interconnected threats which are all the result of human activity. The existential emergency in which all humanity now stands has been building steadily for over half a century.
Here comes the catastrophocene...

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Julian Cribb

_The good news is that the Anthropocene is almost over. It will have been the shortest geological epoch in all of Earth history. _The bad news is that the Catastrophocene is just beginning. This is a period marked by the interaction of ten catastrophic risks which many scientists are now warning could precipitate the end of human civilisation - and potentially bring about the departure of our species from an uninhabitable Earth.
Hallucinatory world: Governments blind as multiple catastrophes besiege human civilisation

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Julian Cribb

Life on Earth is under siege. A chain of tipping points with catastrophic consequences for everyone are being unleashed. Yet governments worldwide remain indifferent to the danger. Indeed, many continue avidly to stoke the very furnaces that will consume our civilisation. The first two statements above are from two new scientific reports, issued this week one from the United Nations and another from the same group of 15,000 scientists who gave us the world climate warning in 2020.
Bruce Haigh: time for some revolutionary Australian art

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Julian Cribb

Dont it always seem to go, that you dont know what you got till its gone? Joni MitchellHow many times have you seen the life of a great Australian eulogised on page 2 of the New York Times? Perishing few, if any, is my impression. Yet that august American journal took time and space in its columns to remember Bruce Haigh for his personal crusade against apartheid and other needless cruelties.
The earth has Bipolar Disorder: and so do we

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Julian Cribb

World Environment Day June 5 demands some sober reflection about the mess we humans have got ourselves into. And how the hell we get out. Even the most insulated consumer of global media must be aware, by now, that the Earths twin poles, north and south, are in terrible trouble. And so, as a consequence, are we.
JULIAN CRIBB.The War on Global Carbon

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Julian Cribb

Citizens of the USA, Australia, Brazil, Canada and elsewhere are slowly waking to the sickening awareness that they are no longer up against local political forces but, rather, a metastasizing international power against which they are largely impotent.
Bruce Haigh: a farewell

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Julian Cribb

Bruce Haigh, who died on April 7, was a diplomat, an adventurer, an artist and writer, a humanist, a romantic and a man with a deep love of his country, who mourned its fading ideals and values. Ominously, Bruce was born in Sydney on 6 August, 1945, the day the Americans dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima. Growing up in Newcastle and Melbourne, his family moved to Perth, then an isolated city built on sand.
Hallucinatory world: Governments blind as multiple catastrophes besiege human civilisation

Oct 26, 2023 | johnmenadue.com | Julian Cribb

Life on Earth is under siege. A chain of tipping points with catastrophic consequences for everyone are being unleashed. Yet governments worldwide remain indifferent to the danger. Indeed, many continue avidly to stoke the very furnaces that will consume our civilisation. The first two statements above are from two new scientific reports, issued this week – one from the United Nations and another from the same group of 15,000 scientists who gave us the world climate warning in 2020.
The super-rich are getting away with murder

Aug 16, 2023 | sydneysun.com | Julian Cribb

Wealth inequality is a global crisis and taxing the super-rich is a pathway to saving the planet from environmental catastrophe, writes Robert Gordon. WE ARE LIVING in the highest temperature of 120,000 years. In the 40-year class war, we have been led by fools in thrall to the super-rich fossilised donors to both sides. Leaders are supposed to have a vision of the future and actually lead. Leadership requires change and taking a risk.
The super-rich are getting away with murder

Aug 15, 2023 | independentaustralia.net | Robert Gordon |Julian Cribb

Wealth inequality is a global crisis and taxing the super-rich is a pathway to saving the planet from environmental catastrophe, writes Robert Gordon. WE ARE LIVING in the highest temperature of 120,000 years. In the 40-year class war, we have been led by fools in thrall to the super-rich fossilised donors to both sides. Leaders are supposed to have a vision of the future and actually lead. Leadership requires change and taking a risk.