Climate Change and Environment
- Trump Administration Guts the Endangered Species Act. If this keeps up, the human species will be on that list.
- 'Unprecedented': more than 100 Arctic wildfires burn in worst ever season. Huge blazes in Greenland, Siberia and Alaska are producing plumes of smoke that can be seen from space
- Bizarre Happenings in the Far North: Lightning, Tropical Moisture, and More. Climate change is savaging the arctic.
- Arctic permafrost is thawing fast. That affects us all. A good wide-ranging article from National Geographic.
- What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today. Sixty years after the bomb tests, the islands are still uninhabited by humans, but plants and wildlife thrive.
- There’s No Free Lunch With Climate Change. "A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change underscores the hard choices we face on land use and global warming."
- The Fake Backlash to Fake Meat. "Food activists angry about the processed nature of new plant-based meats are missing the point."
Politics
- How Climate Change Is Becoming a Deadly Part of White Nationalism. These nutters think that survival is only for whites.
- You Should Be Scared of Nuclear War Again. I sure am.
- Are the Proud Boys Done or Are They Just Getting Started? Will we see more right-wing violence leading up to the 2020 election?
- Trump 2020: Be Very Afraid. The thought of it is already ruining my sleep.
- Science division of White House office left empty as last staffers depart. Idiocracy in action.
Technology
- How the West Got China's Social Credit System Wrong.
"It occupies a spot next to 'Black Mirror' and Big Brother in popular imagination, but China’s social credit project is far more complicated than a single, all-powerful numerical score." - Who Will Pay for the Huge Costs of Rising Seas? Time to sell that Florida beachfront time share, eh?
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