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.
Recent articles in The Human Future
24 August 2025
Environment: Humanity’s big success: turning forests from saviours to spoilers
We’re destroying the ability of forests to mitigate global warming. Extreme weather events cause food price hikes and social unrest. Airlines are ignoring sustainable aviation fuel, but does it matter?
20 August 2025
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.
7 August 2025
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.
26 July 2025
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?
16 July 2025
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.
14 July 2025
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.
30 June 2025
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.
11 June 2025
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.
11 June 2025
Australia’s latest emissions data shows a giant fossil fuel problem
Without accounting for land use, Australia’s emissions have only decreased 3% since 2005, not 27%.
6 June 2025
The threat to survival of our human species is now desperately serious
It is now, nearly three years, since I published an opinion piece in a number of Australian newspapers, entitled; “Human Extinction isn’t Inevitable, Yet…”
4 June 2025
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.
25 May 2025
Environment: Australians must defend our right to protest
Dissent and protest are under attack across Australia. Thawing permafrost is a problem for everyone, not just Arctic-dwellers. LNG produces more emissions than coal, oil or gaseous natural gas. Renewables rollouts are up, but so are energy-related greenhouse gas emissions.
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