The 21st Century is changing much about the world that humans take for granted. Among the more shocking possibilities is that it will sound the death-knell of the nation-state as the main instrument of human self-governance. (more…)
Julian Cribb
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Bruce Haigh: a farewell
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. (more…)
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A plan for human survival
Among the world’s many pressing needs, the most urgent of all is a plan for human survival. And Australia should be the country to lead its creation. (more…)
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Best of 2022: The world votes for “climate hell”
Something of epochal importance happened in Egypt last week – the most significant event since Cheops shoved up his triangular monument, four thousand odd-years ago at the dawn of ‘civilisation’. But the world media, true to form, missed it almost completely. (more…)
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The world votes for “climate hell”
Something of epochal importance happened in Egypt last week – the most significant event since Cheops shoved up his triangular monument, four thousand odd-years ago at the dawn of ‘civilisation’. But the world media, true to form, missed it almost completely. (more…)
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8 billionth human: Has the population bomb exploded?
Sometime in the next few weeks, human being number 8,000,000,000 will enter the world. But what sort of a world will they inherit? (more…)
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Here comes the catastrophocene…
The good news is that the Anthropocene is almost over. It will have been the shortest geological epoch in all of Earth history. (more…)
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The Age of Women
Leadership by wise women is indispensable if we are to escape the catastrophe that male leadership is presently building for humanity. (more…)
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Humanity: sinking into a stagnant ocean
“We were the first that ever burst into that silent sea.” – STColeridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner (more…)
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The media’s role in the age of deceit
The complicity of the media in disseminating false information is a central part of the modern phenomenon. The lie factories cannot flourish without obedient messengers to carry their deceptions. (more…)
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Our two-party system is corrupt — vote for decency instead
Next year, voters will be able to toss out party politicians and embrace candidates with a record of integrity and commitment to the future. (more…)
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The earth is now warming itself — it may be too late for humanity
Only the complete cessation of all human carbon emissions within this decade and removing carbon from the atmosphere will save us from immolation.
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Idiocracy: how the decline in human intelligence is undermining democracy
Science increasingly suspects the proliferation of harmful nerve toxins in recent decades is to blame for a downturn in our IQ levels — and this is threatening not just our health but our very system of governance. (more…)
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Time to end the mass killing
Many times larger than climate change and more deadly than Covid or war, humanity’s chemical emissions are the crisis nobody wants to acknowledge.
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A choice between national happiness – and national misery
Australia treats its environment with indifference. Yet the evidence is mounting that the environment is at the heart of national wellbeing. One country is showing the way.
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Solving the mega-risks
The world is awash with literature describing the deepening self-inflicted crisis into which humanity is pitching. I am frequently asked how we can solve it, presuming we wish to do so. Here, briefly, are the ten most urgent solutions.
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Our national anthem is a joke. Tinkering won’t fix it.
“For those who’ve come across the seas, We’ve boundless plains to share.” The blackest satire in the entire rigmarole. Endorsed by both sides of politics, the plains of Manus Island, Christmas Island and Nauru are scarcely boundless. As for sharing, forget it mate. If you’re a new chum, especially an African or a woman in a headscarf, you’re on your Pat Malone. (more…)
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Why 2050 is too darned late…
One and a half million people are already dead, mostly because their governments did not act on sound medical advice about Covid in a sufficient amount of time. (more…)
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JULIAN CRIBB. Diagnosing the American Disease
Coronavirus has become the American disease as it exploits a particular flaw in the American character and self-image. The question is, can America heal itself? (more…)
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JULIAN CRIBB. Is a Food Supply Crisis the next big hit?
As the world reels under coronavirus and the resulting economic meltdown, another crisis – far more serious – appears to be building: the potential collapse of global food supply chains. (more…)
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JULIAN CRIBB.The War on Global Carbon
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. (more…)
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JULIAN CRIBB. Age of Darkness: the plan to lobotomise Australia
Centuries from now, future historians will be able to assign a date to the start of the Australian Dark Age: it began in July of 2019. That was the date the nation turned its back on the enlightenment of reason, evidence, science and rationality and forged into a befogged future of political fantasies and wild, unfounded beliefs. Not unexpectedly, the state failed and darkness settled over the land. (more…)
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JULIAN CRIBB. On the Need for an Earth Standard Currency.
In an age of existential emergency, when the future of human civilization depends on how successfully we manage to solve the ten global threats which are of our own making and which now confront us all, it is important for humanity to share a common currency for dealing with them, says Julian Cribb. (more…)
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JULIAN CRIBB. The Rise of Woman. Greta Thunberg.
She’s just turned 16 and is already a world leader with more statespersonlike qualities, clear-eyed goals, plain speaking and sheer guts than almost any national head of today or recent history. Julian Cribb looks at the rise of Greta Thunberg (more…)
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JULIAN CRIBB. When ‘oil’ spells murder.
A worldwide spate of legal actions against governments and fossil fuel companies is changing the political context of the climate debate more profoundly than anything yet. Yet it may still not be enough to rescue humanity from the other nine existential threats that confront us. Five new groups dedicated to human survival illustrate a new trend towards global consciousness of the peril in which we stand and action to mitigate it. (more…)
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JULIAN CRIBB. Highway to an endless energy future.
Australia is spoiled for choice among the array of energies we have to power our future, for centuries to come. Concentrated sunlight, huge reserves of coal, gas, hot rocks, wind, wave and tidal energy, not to mention uranium, thorium, biomass, hydro and other possibilities – thousands of years’ worth of energy in sundry forms. (more…)
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JULIAN CRIBB. Can we avert ecocide?
As humans progressively kill off the living creatures which inhabit the planet, do we risk at the same time killing off ourselves? (more…)
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JULIAN CRIBB. The ‘Coal Toll’ and the moral vacuum.
While the focus of public debate about energy has been on monetary costs, it has almost entirely ignored the larger issue of human life, health and wellbeing. Julian Cribb sets the record straight. (more…)
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JULIAN CRIBB. Our Parliament: an unqualified failure for the future
Australian politicians have next to no qualifications or skills when it comes to deciding the focal issues of our time. No wonder the decision making of recent years has been so poor. Julian Cribb argues that a continued political bias against science, technology and education risks placing Australia among the also-rans of the 21st Century. (more…)
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JULIAN CRIBB: When optimism spells disaster…
One of the most dangerous threats to the human future in this, the Age of Perils, is … optimism. (more…)