“Mummy…Daddy, what are clouds made of?” Almost every parent has fielded the innocent, eager question, perhaps explaining about mist, fog, water vapour, raindrops. Today, if you said that, you’d be wrong. (more…)
Julian Cribb
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Tipping, tipping, tipping… the dominoes fall
Dying reefs, shrinking icesheets, withering forests and collapsing currents are the latest symptoms of an Earth system enduring dangerous trauma, according to the Global Tipping Points Report 2025. (more…)
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Climate change causing oceans to decline at alarming rate
Climate change and human activity are causing the health of the world’s oceans to decline at an alarming rate, the UN has warned. (more…)
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The Earth uncloaked – A catastrophe in slow motion
Woodman, spare that tree!
Touch not a single bough!
In youth it sheltered me,
And I’ll protect it now. – GP Morris 1837 (more…)
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World water in crisis
Almost two-thirds of the world’s rivers are in a dire condition, either drying up or supercharged with floodwaters, according to the latest report on the emerging global water crisis by the World Meteorological Organisation. (more…)
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‘Died of a delusion’ – the fate of modern civilisation?
The collapse of modern human civilisation is inevitable. Anyone who doesn’t accept that knows no history. (more…)
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Devouring the earth may decide our future
Every day, the food you eat and resources you use cost the planet at least 12 kilos of lost topsoil. (more…)
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Australia issues ‘terrifying’ climate warning
More intense global warming will bring “terrifying impacts” to human health, infrastructure, the environment, national security and the economy, the Australian Government has warned. (more…)
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Can we save a ‘livable Earth’?
In reshaping the world for prosperity, humanity has undermined the very foundations of progress. (more…)
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Military experts warn of climate wars
“Accelerating climate disruption is the greatest threat to the human future: our safety and well-being, our homes and communities, and how and where we live and work,” a group of leading Australian military and security experts says. (more…)
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The next pandemic is ‘an epidemiological certainty’
The next pandemic disease outbreak is already on the way. Only its identity remains a surprise. (more…)
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The Earth is under chemical attack
The largest of the 10 catastrophic threats now facing humanity is global poisoning, yet it receives less attention from science, government and society than all the others. (more…)
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The great dying
The heedless march of man has now laid waste to 60% of the planet’s land surface area, putting humanity’s own future at risk, the latest science reports. (more…)
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The great waste
Each person on the planet now uses an average of 12 tonnes of materials a year. The problem is, Earth can only renew about seven tonnes of that prodigious consumption in a 12-month period. (more…)
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The great human brain fade
Evidence is piling up that the human brain can no longer keep up with the overshoot crisis which human greed has engendered. (more…)
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The end of jobs?
By the 2040s, half to three-quarters of human society may be out of work, replaced by AI and sleepless robots. (more…)
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When technology enslaves humans
The future of humanity will no longer be determined by humans – that much is already clear. Technology has taken charge of our destiny. The question is: can anything be done? (more…)
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Humanity is ‘risking catastrophe’: UN
The full spread of the impending crisis facing humanity is, at long last, emerging into daylight with the publication by the United Nations of its 2025 Global Risks Report. (more…)
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Why the world needs renewable food
The future well-being and survival of civilisation rests upon a single, fragile assumption: that there will always be enough food. (more…)
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A distracted world marches steadily towards catastrophe
As the nations bicker, squabble and fight among themselves, their ultimate disintegration becomes more certain and more imminent with each passing day. (more…)
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Go-ahead for new carbon bomb marks Australia as enemy of the region
In planning its future release of up to 80 billion tonnes of planet-heating carbon, Australia has committed itself to the destruction of nations and wrecking of big cities throughout the Indo-Pacific Region. (more…)
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Merchants of death
In extending the life of Australia’s North West Shelf gas project till 2070, the federal and WA Governments have knowingly signed the death warrants of four million human beings. (more…)
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A statement by the minister for the environment in the new Australian Government
My fellow Australians: you cannot exist, and your grandkids will not exist without a safe, healthy, habitable Earth for us all to dwell upon. (more…)
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Delete the Earth
Day by day, species by species, landscape by landscape, the world in which humanity arose is being deleted. Eventually, what remains will be unfit for the survival of either humans or large animals. (more…)
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Noicide: advent of a new Dark Age
Something far more sinister than mere genocide is unfolding in the United States and other advanced nations around the world: the forces of darkness have declared open war on human knowledge. (more…)
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Here comes the human tsunami…
This year, more than 400 million people are in search of new homes, of food, water and family security. (more…)
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Lies, damned lies and catastrophic risks
For the second year running, lies have emerged as the primary risk facing humanity, in the Global Risks Survey 2024-25 conducted by the World Economic Forum of 900 experts worldwide. (more…)
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The end of freedom
Freedom, the dream that has inspired countless individuals, cultures, beliefs and civilisations over millennia, will soon be gone. Forever. (more…)
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2024 – a dire year for Human Survival
In 2024, humanity – as a whole – took a purposeful stride towards engineering the collapse of modern civilisation.
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A triumph for greed over commonsense and humanity
For the third year in a row the nations of the world, meeting in solemn climate conclave, have vowed to cook their children and grandchildren alive. (more…)