Cribb alerts us to 'The greatest human impact of all'

Julian Cribb is a thoughtful and innovative thinker who first warned us about the emerging global food crisis in his 2011 book “The Coming Famine”.

Julian Cribb.

Cribb, who spoke in Shepparton last year, is now warning us about our addiction to chemicals; chemicals that threaten to end all life on earth.

He has written about our pervasive and dangerous use of chemicals in a piece headed: “The greatest human impact of all” in “On Line Opinion”.

He argues: “Testing shows that almost every individual is now a walking contaminated site”.

Cribb concludes: “Chemicals are valuable and extremely useful things. They do great good, save many lives and much money. But all this may be for nothing if the current uncontrolled, unregulated and unconscionable mass release and planetary saturation continues. Most people know it is not a good idea to foul the place we live: that lesson must now be applied in the case of these invisible substances, before universal and irreversible harm accrues to life on Earth.”

Julian Cribb, Sandy and 'A gaping wound in democracy'

Julian Cribb.

Julian Cribb has forthrightly said exactly what need to be acknowledged about America’s recent super-storm, “Sandy”.

Cribb, a science communicator and author of ‘The Coming Famine: the global food crisis and what we can do to avoid it’ and who has spoken in the Goulburn Valley, writing on ‘Online Opinion’ argues that an emerging victim of Sandy is democracy and free speech.

Writing in a story headed: “A gaping wound in democracy”, Cribb said many public figures had ignored the real cause of “Sandy”, such events that are coming with increasing fury.