We're Toast 1

This post is a collection of links that support my increasingly strong feeling that the human race (or at least our technological civilization) is doomed. It is the first in what will be an ongoing series of posts. I had intended to make it a page that I would update periodically, but I think the list would get too long. 😒

Climate Change

• New Study Shows Just How Frighteningly Fast Greenland Is Melting
• Permafrost Melt Could Destroy a Third of All Arctic Infrastructure, Affecting as Many as 4 Million People
• The Inconvenient Truth about Climate Change and the Economy
• The Race to Understand Anartica's Most Terrifying Glacier
• The Truth About These Climate Change Numbers

Politics

• The Real Roots of American Rage
• Trumpism Is Rasicm, So Things Will Get Worse
• A devastating report details a ‘monumental’ assault on science at the Department of the Interior

Technology

• We Must Prepare Now for Quantum Attacks, National Academy of Sciences Warns
• “Alexa, Launch Our Nukes!” Artificial Intelligence and the Future of War
• How We Can Prepare for Catastrophically Dangerous AI – And Why We Can't Wait
• The Iran Hacks Cybersecurity Experts Feared May Be Here
• ests New Hypersonic Missile System Under Direct Orders From President Putin [Updated]