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.
Recent articles in The Human Future
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.
Here comes the human tsunami...
This year, more than 400 million people are in search of new homes, of food, water and family security.
Environment: Australia unlikely to play its proper part in keeping warming under 1.5C
Will Australias Paris Agreement emissions reduction target for 2035 be consistent with a 1.5oC-world? The US wants a fossil fuel future; China wants renewables. Whatever coal consumption is still rising.
The situation and why we cant fix it
Many are drawing attention to the alarming state of things. Within Pearls and Irritations, David Spratt and Julian Cribb have recently provided clear and powerful summary statements of the trajectory we're on, heading towards catastrophic global ecological and social breakdown. But they proceed as if the problems could be solved. Theyre wrong about that.
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.
The end of freedom
Freedom, the dream that has inspired countless individuals, cultures, beliefs and civilisations over millennia, will soon be gone. Forever.
2024 a dire year for Human Survival
In 2024, humanity - as a whole - took a purposeful stride towards engineering the collapse of modern civilisation.
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.
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 floods, idly wondering what those darned mortals are up to now...
When the oceans run amok: We ought not to ignore such clear indicators of an imminent collapse
By disrupting the Earths main heat transport system, humans risk creating a new Ice Age in Europe while the rest of the planet overheats to intolerable levels.
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 place.
Is Arctic methane stoking the climate crisis?
The vast wildfires now ravaging the worlds northernmost regions herald rising danger for all humanity, no matter where we live.
