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Author Archives: Julian Cribb
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?
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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.
Posted in World Affairs
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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.
Posted in Environment and climate
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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, … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, World Affairs
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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
Posted in Environment and climate, World Affairs
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Environment and climate
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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, … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Environment and climate
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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?
Posted in Environment and climate
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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.
Posted in Environment and climate
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Environment and climate, Media, NBN, Politics
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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.
Posted in Environment and climate
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JULIAN CRIBB. Green China.
Capitalising on failures of US leadership, China is emerging as a potential ‘great green power’ of the 21st century.
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JULIAN CRIBB. The war drums are beating…
Australia risks being drawn into new US wars in Asia. Having been continually at war since 2001 at America’s behest, it is time the Australian people had their say about whether we should continue to engage in belligerent actions in … Continue reading
Posted in Defence/Security, Politics, World Affairs
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JULIAN CRIBB. When political fantasy trumps scientific fact
During the 1930s, around ten million Russians and Ukrainians starved to death in a horrific event known as Holodomor. Historians have attributed this disaster in part to the quack theories of Trofim Lysenko, Stalin’s hand-picked boss of Soviet agricultural science. … Continue reading
Posted in Environment and climate, Politics
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