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.
Note: I put this topic on hold in March 2020, because of an overload of bad news, mostly relating to COVID-19 and the Trump administration. I'm going to resume posting to this topic to focus my Featured Links posts on other things.
- Report: 'Carbon Bombs' Are Poised to Screw Us Over Big Time. "Massive planned oil and gas projects are set to derail climate progress, reporting from the Guardian reveals."
- Russia’s Invasion Will Keep Killing Ukrainians for Decades After the War Ends. "From Kharkiv to Chernobyl, activists and government workers are tracking environmental damage they say will have lasting effects on the land — and the people."
- Discovery Of The Source Of World's Largest Methane Pool Is Anything But Good News. "A new study by researchers from Queen Mary College London (QMUL) has recently been conducting research on a record-breaking cache of it within the Pacific Ocean. As they note in the journal International Society for Microbial Ecology, this is the largest marine methane deposit in the world."
- White Ho/use prepares to ration vaccines as Covid funding impasse looms. The government’s funds are running out. Tough decisions may soon present themselves.
- I invented Gilead. The Supreme Court is making it real. "I thought I was writing fiction in The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood."
- Tuvalu, sinking in the Pacific, fears becoming a superpower 'pawn'. 'Tuvalu fears that climate change, an existential threat to the Pacific nation, is being forgotten and it worries that fellow island nations could become "pawns" in a global competition between China and the United States, its foreign minister said.'
- Non-COVID" Excess D. eath Rates Ran 21x Higher In Reddest Counties Than Bluest In 2021. If you want to live, "owning the libs" may not be the best strategy.
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