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Julian Cribb

Julian Cribb

The Sydney Morning Herald

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Lies, damned lies and catastrophic risks

Lies, damned lies and catastrophic risks
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Pearls and Irritations

Julian Cribb

The end of freedom

The end of freedom
27.01.2025 6

Pearls and Irritations

Julian Cribb

2024 – a dire year for Human Survival

In 2024, humanity – as a whole – took a purposeful stride towards engineering the collapse of modern civilisation. While climate, politics, wars...

29.12.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Julian Cribb

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...

26.11.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Julian Cribb

The gods look on aghast, as human calamity unfolds…

From atop Mount Olympus, Zeus peers in perplexity through fumes of fire, dust and vehicle exhaust, toxic chemicals, roiling tempests and raging...

21.11.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Julian Cribb

When the oceans run amok: “We ought not to ignore such clear indicators of an imminent collapse”

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...

28.10.2024 4

Pearls and Irritations

Julian Cribb

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 resume. Symbolically, the world now stands in such a...

14.10.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Julian Cribb

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...

05.10.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Julian Cribb

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...

02.10.2024 4

Pearls and Irritations

Julian Cribb