A feed from Australian author and science communicator Julian Cribb’s blog intended to encourage inquiry and the discussion we humans have to have if we intend to survive this Century, when ten mega-risks come together to confront us. The articles are intended, especially, to encourage discussion of cross-cutting species-level solutions.
31 October 2024. When the Oceans Run Amok… – By disrupting the Earth’s main heat transport system, humans risk creating a new Ice Age in Europe – while the rest of the planet overheats to intolerable levels. Far beneath the storm-tossed waves of the North Atlantic, a monster is stirring. A monster so vast and violent it could savage Western Civilization in ways not … Continue reading When the Oceans Run Amok…
31 October 2024. The deafening silence in the Eye of the Hurricane – In the eye of the hurricane is a moment of calm and silence, before wild chaos and destruction resumes. Symbolically, the world now stands in such a place. “We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth … Continue reading The deafening silence in the Eye of the Hurricane
31 October 2024. Idiocracy: is this where democracy is headed? – The early 21st Century has been noteworthy for an increase in the number of governments willing to act against the interests of their electors – and the number of electors prepared to vote against their own best interests and choose such governments. The US MAGA movement and the UK Brexit movement are outstanding examples but the … Continue reading Idiocracy: is this where democracy is headed?
31 October 2024. Is Arctic methane stoking the climate crisis? – The vast wildfires now ravaging the world’s northernmost regions herald rising danger for all humanity, no matter where we live. To people worldwide desperately trying to rebuild their lives and homes following devastation by hurricane, flood, drought and sea-surge, what happens in the remote Arctic may seem of small importance. But it has the capacity … Continue reading Is Arctic methane stoking the climate crisis?
24 September 2024. The Earth is sick – and getting sicker. – Planet Earth is sick – and getting sicker, according to a new Planetary Health Check. The report, by Germany’s Potsdam Institute, finds that humans – like a drunken driver heedlessly running a red traffic light – have smashed through the safe boundaries of the planet and its ability to sustain life in seven out of … Continue reading The Earth is sick – and getting sicker.
24 June 2024. Blowing up the supermarket… – Around the world, from India, to the Middle East, to southern Europe to North America, people are dropping in tens of thousands under the blazing heat of a Northern summer. Many die. In one of the harshest ironies of the climate madness now unleashed, hundreds of religious pilgrims died visiting the home of the world’s … Continue reading Blowing up the supermarket…
29 May 2024. Time to outlaw deadly biotech experiments – In a momentous development, the US Government has suspended funding from the biotech company increasingly linked to the origins of the Covid pandemic that slew seven million people. The decision by the Biden Administration to blacklist the EcoHealth Alliance is a major step towards sheeting home the responsibility for a biotechnology experiment that appears to … Continue reading Time to outlaw deadly biotech experiments
25 April 2024. The Earth System Treaty: an interview – Geoff Holland: What is an Earth System treaty? And what are its core principles? Julian Cribb: An Earth System Treaty is a worldwide legal agreement, committing everyone who signs it to work to protect a habitable planet for all of us, for our grandchildren, and for generations far into the future. Basically, it seeks to overcome the … Continue reading The Earth System Treaty: an interview
19 April 2024. Coral catastrophe signals our own undoing – Five times in the history of life on Earth the corals have perished, swept from the board by conditions hostile to nearly all life. Each time, it has taken them millions of years to evolve anew. Each mass death of corals has been accompanied by the mass deaths of most other species, on land and … Continue reading Coral catastrophe signals our own undoing
20 March 2024. World War Three begins… – World War Three has already begun, though few have noticed. It is being fought out in parliaments and the press, on social media platforms, in pubs and at family dining tables around the globe. It is an almost silent war that will kill millions, potentially billions and wreck the planet for all. World War Three … Continue reading World War Three begins…