Julian Cribb AM is an Australian author and science communicator. His career includes appointments as scientific editor for The Australian newspaper, director of national awareness for the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), editor of several newspapers, member of numerous scientific boards and advisory panels, and president of national professional bodies for agricultural journalism and science communication. His published work includes over 9000 articles, 3000 science media releases and ten books. He has received thirty-two awards for journalism. His previous books include Earth Detox (2021), Food or War (2019), Poisoned Planet (2014), and The Coming Famine (2010). As a science writer and a grandparent, Julian Cribb is deeply concerned at the existential emergency facing humanity, and his latest books map hopeful pathways out of our predicament.

• Preface; 1. Existential emergency; 2. Extinction …or survival?; 3. Resources for living; 4. Nuclear awakening; 5. Cooling Earth; 6. Clean up the planet; 7. Preventing pandemics; 8. Renewable food; 9. 'One child fewer'; 10. Healing technological mayhem; 11. Ending the age of deceit; 12. Who are we, really?; 13. An Earth Standard Currency; 14. Tools for repairing the Earth; 15. Think like a human, act like a species; Notes; Index.

'Julian Cribb's pathbreaking new book, How to Fix a Broken Planet, looks squarely at the existential threats to our life-support systems and suggests how individuals and governments should take remedial action. I only hope people will read him and act.' Paul Ehrlich, author of The Annihilation of Nature