Canadian Association for the Club of Rome | Julian Cribb's Earth Detox: How and why we must clean up our planet. @canadianassociationforthec7885 | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Julian Cribb, AM, is a prolific author & science communicator, member of many science organizations, & winner of many awards. A newspaper editor by trade, he was science editor for The Australian newspaper, director of awareness for CSIRO, & president of AUS professional bodies for agricultural journalism & science. For two decades, his main focus has been the emergency faced by humanity. He is a co-founder of the Council for the Human Future. Our health is balanced on a knife edge—growing less & less secure as our numbers & demands increase. The climate in which agriculture arose is now extinct, half the topsoil is gone, & water is running critically short. New crises like the current heatwaves & Ukraine war will only exacerbate the built-in instability caused by toxic chemicals and waste. Earth & all life on it are saturated with anthropogenic chemicals & wastes, in an event unlike anything in the previous 4 billion years. Each moment of our lives, from conception to death, we are exposed to thousands of substances, some lethal, many toxic & most of them unknown in their effects on our health or on the natural world. In this talk, Julian explores new opportunities & public communication strategies to reduce the toxic risks arising out of overuse & misuse of unsafe chemicals globally.
Julian Cribb, AM, is a prolific author & science communicator, member of many science organizations, & winner of many awards. A newspaper editor by trade, he was science editor for The Australian newspaper, director of awareness for CSIRO, & president of AUS professional bodies for agricultural journalism & science. For two decades, his main focus has been the emergency faced by humanity. He is a co-founder of the Council for the Human Future. Our health is balanced on a knife edge—growing less & less secure as our numbers & demands increase. The climate in which agriculture arose is now extinct, half the topsoil is gone, & water is running critically short. New crises like the current heatwaves & Ukraine war will only exacerbate the built-in instability caused by toxic chemicals and waste. Earth & all life on it are saturated with anthropogenic chemicals & wastes, in an event unlike anything in the previous 4 billion years. Each moment of our lives, from conception to death, we are exposed to thousands of substances, some lethal, many toxic & most of them unknown in their effects on our health or on the natural world. In this talk, Julian explores new opportunities & public communication strategies to reduce the toxic risks arising out of overuse & misuse of unsafe chemicals globally.
