Speaker: Julian Cribb
Topic: Earth Detox: How and why we must clean up our planet
Time: Apr 12, 2023
Summary :
Earth, and all life on it, are saturated with anthropogenic chemicals and 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 and most of them unknown in their effects on our health or on the natural world. There is no escaping them. In this talk Cribb explores new opportunities and public communication strategies to reduce the toxic risks arising out of overuse and misuse of unsafe chemicals globally.
Bio:
Our speaker today is Julian Cribb, AM, 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.
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