Archive - Surviving the 21st Century

Can we avoid Collapse?

Geoffrey Holland’s Green Wisdom podcast has kindly created the following discussion of the key factors affecting the survival of human civilization in…

Jun 18 • Julian Cribb

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Who will release the next pandemic?

Who will unleash the next pandemic?

Jun 12 • Julian Cribb

Artificial stupidity

and the well-worn road to technicide.

Jun 5 • Julian Cribb

May 2026

Man the desert-maker, woman the healer

In a hundred million years or so, when all our cities, buildings and bones are ground back into bedrock, the sole monument to humanity will be a thin…

May 31 • Julian Cribb

The Politics of Food UnRegulation

By guest writer Dr Howard Dengate, food scientist

May 29

When the Earth's well runs dry...

Beneath our very feet, a silent crisis is unfolding.

May 21 • Julian Cribb

A man-made comet is striking the Earth

"Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the Earth" – Archimedes, c 250 BC

May 14 • Julian Cribb

The Coming Famine

The existing world food crisis is deepening while dangers of famine in the short-term are escalating due to fractures in agricultural supply chains…

May 5 • Julian Cribb

April 2026

The greatest threat to global security

A war is quietly being waged against humanity that threatens the security not only of all nations but of the entire planet and all its people.

Apr 25 • Julian Cribb

Turning waste into wealth

Every year the world tips US$30 trillion’s worth of valuable materials into its garbage tips, waterways, the atmosphere and other dumping grounds.

Apr 19 • Julian Cribb

Up to our eyeballs in 💩💩💩

Every day humans produce more than a megatonne of excrement and then distribute half of it around the Earth without treatment.

Apr 14 • Julian Cribb

Too many people?

The greatest threat to our children and grandchildren is… more people.

Apr 7 • Julian Cribb