We're Toast 2

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 part of an ongoing series of posts.

Climate Change

• One Species Loves Our Climate-Wrecking Ways: Fire Ants!
• The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything
• The Insect Apocalypse is Here
• Extreme weather in 2018 was a raging, howling signal of climate change
• Deadly Bird Battles May Be Another Weird Consequence of Climate Change
• Oceans Are Warming Faster Than Predicted
• Stop biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction, warns UN

Politics

• The President's Coal Warrior
• Why press coverage of the 2020 election will be a disaster (Twitter thread)
• 'Nothing on this page is real': How lies became truth in online America
• It's Not Quite Doomsday o'Clock – But It Should Be

Technology

• The Hard Math Behind Bitcoin's Global Warming Problem. It's an older article but still relevant. 
• Patent trolls celebrate as Trump's new rules breathes fresh life into parasitic grifter capitalism