We're Toast 3

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

• Ancient Plants Reveal Arctic Summers Haven't Been This Hot in 115,000 Years
• Glaciers Are Retweeting. Millions Rely on Their Water. 
• And Now the Weather: Mars-Like with a Chance of Apocalypse
• With $32 Trillion in Assets, Investors Demand Immediate Action On Climate Change
• A hole opens up under Antarctic glacier–big enough to fit two-thirds of Manhattan
  

Politics

• This website is a nightmare this week ..., a Twitter thread from Ben Collins about social media and the nature of reality.
• A Twitter thread on how money laundering works. It explains a lot of things about today's political world.
• Food Shocks Are Causing Hunger to Spike. Climate change isn't the only cause.
• Britain's Post-Brexit Future May Stink. I do hope they come to their senses.
• World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam
• Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America.
  

Technology

• The way we eat could doom us as a species. Here’s a new diet designed to save us.
• Controversial experiments that could make bird flu more risky poised to resume