Preface; 1. Existential emergency; 2. Extinction …or survival?; 3. Resources for living; 4. Nuclear awakening; 5. Cooling Earth; 6. Clean up the planet; 7. Preventing pandemics; 8. Renewable food; 9. 'One child fewer'; 10. Healing technological mayhem; 11. Ending the age of deceit; 12. Who are we, really?; 13. An Earth Standard Currency; 14. Tools for repairing the Earth; 15. Think like a human, act like a species; Notes; Index.
The ten catastrophic risks that threaten human civilisation and the planet, and advice on how to overcome or mitigate them.
Julian Cribb AM is an Australian author and science communicator. His career includes appointments as scientific editor for The Australian newspaper, director of national awareness for the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), editor of several newspapers, member of numerous scientific boards and advisory panels, and president of national professional bodies for agricultural journalism and science communication. His published work includes over 9000 articles, 3000 science media releases and ten books. He has received thirty-two awards for journalism. His previous books include Earth Detox (2021), Food or War (2019), Poisoned Planet (2014), and The Coming Famine (2010). As a science writer and a grandparent, Julian Cribb is deeply concerned at the existential emergency facing humanity, and his latest books map hopeful pathways out of our predicament.
'Julian Cribb's pathbreaking new book, How to Fix a Broken
Planet, looks squarely at the existential threats to our
life-support systems and suggests how individuals and governments
should take remedial action. I only hope people will read him and
act.' Paul Ehrlich, author of The Annihilation of Nature
'… probably the most important book I have read. I predict it will
be a world changer. It needs to be translated into every language
on Earth and made urgently available to politicians and community
opinion leaders everywhere … It offers the reader a sensible and
practical path to rescue our human species from early extinction
and offers detailed actions for individuals, community groups and
governments.' Bob Douglas AO, Australian National University
'This book takes you on a chilling journey through the existential
threats facing humanity. Essential reading for the 21st Century.'
Will Steffen, Australian National University
'How to Fix a Broken Planet is a masterpiece that will have a
lasting impact on the culture as people seek ways to be effective
planetary citizens. This book delivers a worthy prescription for
humanity to embrace common purpose. Together, in gender equal
partnership, that's our best chance to save ourselves from
ourselves' Geoff Holland, author of The Hydrogen Age
'How to Fix a Broken Planet is a must read for the future of
the human species, and all the other species with which we share
this one and only Earth.' Dana Hunnes, author of Recipe for
Survival: What You Can Do to Live a Healthier and More
Environmentally Friendly Life
'A blueprint for humanity surviving and thriving in the 21st
century. This book provides the escape ramps for avoiding the
dangerous problems facing our species.' Lyle Lewis, Former
Endangered Species Biologist, U.S. Department of Interior
'Julian Cribb continues to warn all on this planet of what we are
doing to it and the risks. As usual, his work is meticulously
documented and tells us what can still be carried out - if the will
is there at all levels.' John Kerin AO, Minister for Primary
Industries and Energy in the Australian Hawke Government
1983–1991
'… nothing less than a luminous plan-of-action for a new human
epoch which our grandchildren might not only survive but might
flourish within, unleashing the glory of human creative potential,
should we choose to fix our broken planet.' Gordon Weiss, World
Food Programme's East Africa co-ordinator
'Science communicator Julian Cribb has assembled an excellent Earth
repair manual. Cribb believes the world requires a survival
revolution with crosscutting citizen solutions and an integrated
systems approach.' Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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