It’s a huge challenge, but we can’t avoid it

July 3, 2025

It’s a long-established truth that, in any situation, if you want resolution and progress you are well-advised to present people with solutions rather than problems. So thanks to Bob Douglas for offering potential solutions for global action to address the existential threats that he and his colleagues in the Council for the Human Future have been alerting us about.

Quoting from Julian Cribb’s How to fix a broken planet, he presents 10 initiatives which, if undertaken on a global scale, could pull the world back from its current existential precipice.

Cribb is under no illusion about the magnitude of these challenges, as Bob Douglas quotes from Cribb’s book: these problems, and their solutions “call for the greatest act of single-minded collaboration and caring that humans have ever undertaken”.

Douglas’ article presents these possibilities succinctly and engagingly: high time for the world to read this book, and engage with global solutions.