We'lre Toast 18

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

• The Last of the Arctic's Old Sea Ice Is on the Verge of Vanishing. Only 1.2 percent of ice in the Arctic Ocean is older than four years.
• America After Climate Change, Mapped. The maps are pretty, as long as you don't think too much about what they mean.
• Degraded soils mean tropical forests may never fully recover from logging. This probably is true for Canada's boreal forests. 
• New ice river detected at Arctic glacier adds to rising seas. "We really didn't expect to see this."
• Carbon Dioxide Could Make it Harder to Think. It looks more and more like an Idiocracy future.
• 2019 wasn't just protests and Fleabag: It was the year a climate truth bomb dropped. To quote Bruce Cockburn: "Some people don't see the light until it shines through a bullet hole."

Politics 

• False Idol — Why the Christian Right Worships Donald Trump. I cannot understand how anyone who considers themselves a Christian can support Trump.
• This Is How A Society Dies. We've just seen Britain kick over the stool. All that's left now is the twitching. And it will be the same in the US next year when Trump gets re-elected.

Technology

• SUV shaming: I care about climate change, so why am I driving an SUV? Yes, why, when they're so bad for the environment?
• Unraveling the Secret Origins of an AmazonBasics Battery. This illustrates the complexities of modern global supply chains and why they can be bad for the environment.
• Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming. Canada is a big part of the problem.