We're Toast 10

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 and Environment

• Europe's Cities Weren't Designed for This Kind of Heat. And check out the link about London's Boris Buses.
• Tshering Tobgay: An urgent call to protect the world's "third pole". A Ted talk about the threat to the Hindu Kush Himalaya region.
• Amazon deforestation accelerating towards unrecoverable 'tipping point'. Brazil's TrumpLite is destroying the rainforest. 
• How today’s global warming is unlike the last 2,000 years of climate shifts. Previous cooldowns and warm-ups were regional, driven by natural forces, paleoclimate data shows. 
• Russia alarmed by large fall in bee populations. If the Russians are alarmed, we should be too.
• Climate change will ruin train tracks and make travel hell. It will also affect freight trains, and to a lesser extent, highways and bridges.
• Glass skyscrapers have turned entire cities into energy vampires. And what will people do when the elevators and air conditioning fail?
• There are diseases hidden in the ice, and they are waking up. Long-dormant bacteria and viruses, trapped in ice and permafrost for centuries, are reviving as Earth's climate warms
• Eurupe's Heat Wave Threatens Record Melting of Greenland's Ice Sheet.
• Are We Watching the Arctic Pass a Tipping Point This Summer? Maybe not, but it's not good.

Politics

• Nobel Economist Angus Deaton: Inequality is Destroying Democratic Capitalism
• From Trump to Johnson, nationalists are on the rise–backed by millionaire oligarchs. Money doesn't talk; it just elects fascists.
• What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever. If multiracial democracy cannot be defended in America, it will not be defended elsewhere.
• The Explicit Embrace of Racism Is Next. The veneer of politeness is coming off.

Technology

• To protect its satellites, France outlines ambitious space-weapons program. Sheer insanity.
• Gigantic, mysterious radiation leak traced to facility in Russia. 10 times worse than Fukishima.
• "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right.