An excellent article and an even better book. Julian Cribb says it as it is and as it will be unless the issues outlined are addressed. It is a tough message written by a tough minded individual who has been dealing with and coming to terms with these issues for over 30 years.

I am heartily sick of the gutless, fearful, denial riven troglodyte commentary from the mentally weak nutters who inhabit the pages of OLO commentary. Their remarks have nothing to do with reason and everything to do with bigotry and prejudice, denial, racism and intellectual cowardice.They are ruining OLO as a forum for reasonable and considered discussion. Take your dopey bile elsewhere. Bruce Haigh

Amazing. Bruce Haigh accusing others of "dopey bile"!! Then again, he thinks Julian Cribb's drivel is wonderful, so what should we expect.

Cribb's The Coming Famine was a dirge written some time before 2010. It hasn't happened, of course, but he has learned from the global warmers and his latest scare now pushes out disaster to some time near the end of the 21st Century, which should save him the embarrassment of being proven wrong, since we'll all be dead. What a crock.

Tartan
"gutless, fearful, denial riven troglodyte commentary from the mentally weak nutters who inhabit the pages of OLO commentary".

Great stuff but you didn't mention me just Bruce Haig. You can't leave me out. I'm happy to point to the truth, that Julian's book is just disaster porn (plenty of that in bookstores) full of easily debunkable warnings of calamity. There, do I count as a troglodyte but your lights now?

Under the heading, About the Author, Julian is described as a 'science communicator'.

Given the fanciful assertions he makes in his article, it would be more fitting to describe him as a 'science fiction author'.

The EcoModernist Manifesto was written by the following authors:-

Stewart Brand
Prof Barry Brook
Prof Roger Pielke, Jr.
Prof Ruth Defries
Assoc Prof John Asafu-Adjaye
Mark Lynas
Peter Teague
Robert Stone
Michael Shellenberger
Joyashree Roy
Mark Sagoff
Rachel Pritzker
Pamela Ronald
Martin Lewis
Ted Nordhaus
Christopher Foreman
David Keith
Erle Ellis
Linus Blomqvist

It is an inspiring piece of work. We can do this, and leave a better world for our children through *practical* and *economic* means without appealing to the romantics or Amish in us!
http://www.ecomodernism.org/manifesto-english/

This article serves the useful purpose of informing us what a heap of garbage Julian’s book is.
Otherwise the article is a waste of resources.
Get a labouring job, Julian, you will annoy less people.