In 2024, humanity – as a whole – took a purposeful stride towards engineering the collapse of modern civilisation.
2024 – a dire year for Human Survival By Julian Cribb
While climate, politics, wars and celebrities vied for the headlines, the hard indicators of human management of Planet Earth and our own future were all pointing south. Here is a selection of catastrophic risks for 2024, based on trusted information:
Forest loss: 488 m ha tree cover lost since 2000. Current loss is around 25mha/ year to all causes, including agriculture, development, wildfires and climate.